iainmclaren2 Posted January 13, 2014 Posted January 13, 2014 Has Stefan done a show about France and it's socialist government? It would be interesting to look at the high taxation policies and its affects.
aFireInside Posted January 13, 2014 Posted January 13, 2014 I agree, its an interesting country and culture . I want to hear about the culture. it seems that the french people feel entitled more than the American culture.
PGP Posted October 2, 2014 Posted October 2, 2014 One of my favourite books just for its irreverence and two fingers to EU is Bernard Connollys "Rotten heart of Europe". In it he makes a very perceptive observation of the French and what are called the "enarques". Basically in political terms, the technocratic elite of the Republic. He observes that they do not view money and the control of monetary and fiscal policy as primarily an economic function for public good but a lever of control in directing society and culture as a whole. This would include the likes of Trichet and d'Estaing. Speaking of the enarques approach to economics, he says: "In this respect, as in a number of others, some enarques were akin to the officials of the Nazi Deutches Ahnenerbe, whose activities included the promotion of a specifically German science of meteorology so that German weather could be freed from the physical laws that determined everyone else's weather" I have the version from the mid-90's but it has also been reprinted in 2013 with an update. IMO, anyone who wishes to get a true analysis of the "European project" would be well served in reading this book. It has been prophetic, mainly because it is a wholly rational analysis.
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