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Category Archives: France
The market rules, okay?
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. Paris, 27 March 2013 LE GOUVERNEMENT IMPUISSANT FACE À LA MONTÉE DU CHOMAGE [Government helpless in … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Europe, France, USA
Tagged Apple, eurozone, Gap, invisible hand, Le Figaro, market economy, Motown
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“Sod off, you stupid prat!”
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 17 March 2013 A VICTORY FOR FREE SPEECH On 23 February 2008 at the annual agricultural … Continue reading
Posted in France, Justice
Tagged Animal Farm, Casse-toi pov'con, George Orwell, Helvétius, Hervé Eon, Jacques Chirac, Nicolas Sarkozy, Voltaire
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Neither politicians nor soldiers
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 22 January 2013 “Politics and the fate of mankind are shaped by men without ideas and … Continue reading
Posted in Algeria, China, France, Literature, Military, Politics, Uncategorized
Tagged Albert Camus, Nobel Prize for Literature
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Last resting-place
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 10 January 2013 Wo? Wo wird einst des Wandermüden Letzte Ruhestätte sein? Under Palmen … Continue reading
Adieu la voiture! Adieu la boutique!
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 6 January 2013 “I can sympathize with the French sense of loss at the defeat of … Continue reading
Posted in France, Globalisation, Politics, Russia
Tagged Benjamin Franklin, Eric Hobsbawm, globalization, homogenization, Leo Tolstoy, Voltaire
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How the market economy works
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 5 December 2012 As it does from time to time, Antigone1984 today draws readers’ attention to the … Continue reading
Posted in France, Japan, Korea, Netherlands
Tagged Panasonic, Philips, price-fixing, Samsung, Taiwan, Technicolor, Toshiba
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Cartesian odyssey
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 4 December 2012 TRAVELLING MAN “Je voyage, donc je suis” “Il est bon de savoir quelque … Continue reading
Posted in France, Philosophy, Uncategorized
Tagged Discours de la méthode, je pense donc je suis, odyssey, René Descartes, Stockholm
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Like a fish needs a bicycle
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. Paris, 1 December 2012 FOOD FOR THOUGHT Put out the bunting! It’s what we’ve all been … Continue reading
Posted in France, USA
Tagged Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, burger, fast food, globalisation, greasy spoon, haute cuisine, Le Monde, wonga
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Genuflection
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. Paris, 30 November 2012 Plaque spotted today on a wall next to the rue Mouffetard in … Continue reading