Éric Pichet

"Structural reforms and respecting European treaties are the two pre-requisites to reduce deficits in the long-term and boost the economy’s potential growth rate which, at around 1%, is much lower than…"

"Despite a relative control over expenditure in 2013, the persistence of a very high public deficit was mainly due to an unprecedented and unexpected drop in tax revenue which confirms the existence of…"

"Thirty years of lax budget policy marked by soaring public spending in the 1980’s, the happy-go-lucky attitude of the 1990’s and finally, a policy of procrastination in the 2000’s characterised by the…"

"At the end of the current five-year presidential term and the “Trente-Six Dispendieuses” far-reaching public expenditure reforms will be required. These will be all the more painful as they are far to…"

"Misapprehensions about the crucial question of whether Management constitutes a scientific discipline stem, in my view, from the multiplicity of perspectives involved: theoretical; normative; technica…"

"An inherent paradox of intellectual activity is that reflection can be very time-consuming . Unfortunately, it is only when researchers are driven by a sense of urgency that they can make real progres…"

"The aptitudes needed to conduct a real research project are fundamentally different from the ones needed for purposes of scientific vulgarisation . This is because above and beyond a capacity for unde…"

"In developped countries, successive governments have always acted like firemen putting out fires instead of architects designing new buildings. The tax loopholes they have created are responses to emo…"