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Éloi Laurent est économiste et enseigne à Sciences-po, Stanford et au Collège des Hautes Études Européennes. Dans La Nouvelle Écologie politique, il propose un regard neuf et optimiste sur l'avenir de notre planète : le développement humain ne mettrait pas en péril les ressources naturelles à condition que les citoyens élèvent leur niveau d'exigence démocratique.

Jonathon Porritt was a prominent member of the Ecology Party in the 70's and 80's. He later became Tony Blair's chief environmental adviser and was chair of the Sustainable Development Commission. He was invited by Libération to take part in a debate on sustainable economy with Yannick Jadot.

Jonathon Porritt was a prominent member of the Ecology Party in the 70's and 80's. He later became Tony Blair's chief environmental adviser and was chair of the Sustainable Development Commission. He was invited by Libération to take part in a debate on sustainable economy with Yannick Jadot.

Peter Ainsworth is a former Member of Parliament and Shadow Minister of Environment. He was invited by Libération to take part in a debate on degrowth. He was kind enough to answers our questions on the energy policy of the United Kingdom.

Peter Ainsworth, a former MP and shadow minister of environment, came to Lyon in September 2010 to take part in a debate on the question of degrowth. He expressed his views on the need to promote sustainable energy without asking democracies, companies and individuals to forsake economic growth.

Afin de contribuer à l'entreprise d'évaluation de l'héritage thatchérien qui était l'objet du colloque organisé à Lyon en décembre 2009, cet article se propose d'étudier l'influence des idées néolibérales sur l'opinion britannique. Il apparaît que le passage du consensus keynésien au consensus néolibéral, symbolisé par l'élection de Margaret Thatcher en 1979, doit beaucoup à l'action d'un petit groupe d'économistes qui, au lendemain de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, se sont donné pour ambition de transformer les mentalités dans un sens plus conforme aux principes du libéralisme économique. Si le succès de la stratégie néolibérale est indéniable auprès des élites, on remarque cependant que la conversion du grand public reste partielle, notamment en ce qui concerne la privatisation des services publics.

A much debated topic has been the fundamental thrust of the New Labour project. Was it about the modernisation of social democracy or its abandonment? Did it adapt itself to the settlement bequeathed by Thatcherism and the neo-liberal paradigm it entrenched or seek it transcend it? This article discusses these contending interpretations focusing on the issue of public service reform, which lay at the heart of New Labour's domestic programme. It then explores the effects of New Labour's market-oriented 'modernisation' strategy on what social democrats have traditionally regarded as the normative underpinning of the public services, the 'public service ethos'.

This paper suggests that the role of the Thatcher governments in changing the course of economic and political development may have been exaggerated, and indeed that the role of political factors in general and "neo-liberalism" in particular is often overstated. An implication is that some current problems, interpreted as primarily political, have an economic dimension which is not fully taken into account. An example is the process of "financialisation"; this is frequently analysed in political terms although there are deep economic forces behind it.

Cette troisième séance de l'Atelier Amérique du Nord s'attaque à une idée reçue assez répandue en France associant fortement le capitalisme à la culture américaine. Jean Heffer, spécialiste de l'histoire économique, aborde la question avec prudence, et le soin qu'il prend à définir les termes qu'il emploie nous aide à comprendre comment une simplification abusive ne peut aboutir qu'à des stéréotypes stériles.