Pretend that you are going to share the work is sympathetic

How to be fully actor of an economy that is the sense of do not understand the basic workings How to accept some changes to growth when it is not known what it covers exactly, as the confessing 70 of the French

Upon my arrival at Bercy, I was able to measure in concrete terms how the offset could be the source of misunderstandings and failures of economic policy reforms. The issue of debt is very talking here: why politicians have denied for so long to speak of our debt They refused for fear to be anxiogenic, whereas it is precisely to not talk about the problems that is anxiety-provoking. This is why I asked Michel Pébereau together a transpartisane commission and to prepare a report on the debt of the France. This report put forward the important steps to get our country out of debt. The first results are: debt will decrease by 2 of GDP in 2006 and 2007 Finance Bill is built on the basis of a decrease in the volume of expenditure of the State, even though we are in a pre-election year. Importantly, these measures could never be implemented without the great national debate on debt that he helped launch. It is this debate that the French have full awareness of the impact of ageing on our public finances and accept the imperative of the debt.

But the main lesson of this approach is that the effort of pedagogy must similarly be exercised on all of the major economic issues if we are to put an end to the trial of intent and make our fellow citizens join the upgrades including our country needs. From this point of view, our time opens new opportunities that we must seize. The development of the society information has considerably strengthened the need for our fellow citizens to understand the ins and outs of what it offers. Thus, the issue today is not so much what must be to allow our citizens to capture the reasons and meaning of the changes. The issue today is the economic policy that political economy in the noblest sense of the term. It is for all these reasons that I just created the Council for the dissemination of economic culture (Codice), that I wanted to cross-national. I also wanted to with the President, Claude Perdriel, be it rich media men, because it is a broadcast to the greater number of basic economic concepts that we have the greatest need.

A better collective economic culture have, for example, certainly changed the way the debate on the 35-hour developed by France. At the time of globalization, at the time when control of the wage costs became more vital than ever for our economy, the brutal passage by the 35-hour law appeared abroad as a "curiosity" that no other country has taken the risk of copying. There are reasons for this. But ideology has cleaved the positions because we have never given the means to the French to seize a suddenly weak productive capacity would have an impact on their standard of living. Because this choice policy, the French have paid three times: their wages increases have been limited, "goods and services of proximity" prices increased and the relief of loads have been funded by public debt and more. Pretend that you are going to share the work, is "sympathetic". but better armed on the economic plan, many of our fellow citizens would have understood that, in so doing, would mainly share their purchasing power.

Economic education can avoid economic errors; It must also help us collectively move forward. Maurice Lévy and Jean-Pierre Jouyet come to me "the intangible economy" report that I had commanded them. This report opens really bold tracks so that our economy can win the growing point is missing. But the first message I want to retain, is that we learn benefit of our entry in the intangible economy if we do a great work of teaching to our fellow citizens. Because changes in paradigms that it assumes will not of itself. In the intangible economy, it is our ability to create, invent, innovate which becomes our primary criterion of competitiveness and similarly that electricity was the engine of the industrial revolution, technologies are the vector of the intangible revolution. The intangible economy also profoundly changes our relationship to time can be ideas on weekends, you can be creative even when it has passed the retirement age! and in space the territory of the growth is now the entire planet.

The campaign for the presidential election is the unique opportunity to make a priority of economic culture and to show that alongside the debate on our social, finally very consensual model, the real debate that we need, it is must focus on our growth model. Economic education before the election, is the assurance to hold economic after promises.