脱税天国を始末するのは簡単だ、その意志が足りないだけ。
“Acabar con los paraísos fiscales es facilísimo, hace falta querer”
El expresidente del comité científico de ATTAC reivindica "restablecer la primacia de la política"
Miguel Mora París 6 MAY 2013 - 00:23 CET
"Ending tax haven is a breeze, you need to want"
Former President of the Scientific Committee of ATTAC claims "restore the primacy of politics"
Miguel Mora Paris 6 MAY 2013 - 00:23 CET
René Passet (Begles, outskirts of Bordeaux, 1926) is one of the-few-economists who warned of the current economic crisis. What began in 1979, when in his book L'Economique et le vivant warned that industrial capitalism would destroy the biosphere. And I finished saying in 1996, neo-libérale L'Illusion where predicted that financial deregulation and the virtual economy annihilate the human and social factor of the economy.
Development specialist and promoter of the term bio-economy, first president of the scientific council of ATTAC and professor emeritus at the University of Paris I-Panthéon-Sorbonne, Passet has been a big influence on the movements of indignant, and in his penultimate book, The Great representations of the world and the economy through the story (Key Intellectual) proposes a multidisciplinary approach to overcome long-term economic trends.
Married with a Spanish Hecho valley, and intellectual and physical fitness at 87 years old, lives in Chatou Passet in the 'banlieue' of Paris, although he prefers to stay in the legendary Café Flore. Armed with his piercing blue eyes and white hair, with a disarming simplicity recounts his life and ideas. Old friend of Edgar Morin and Stephane Hessel, he joined the Liberation at 17 ("They risked their lives, I do not"), and preserves the frankness and bonhomie of his peasant origins. He says that "if capitalism does not transform, disappear" and that we should be optimistic "because it often happens in history the improbable."
Question. Would you summarize your life in ten or twelve sentences?
Answer. Lescun worked the land, mystical place of family roots, but grew up in a working class district of Bordeaux. I was lucky not to be rich and have always kept workers friends. That's my pride. They say they know the people, but a lie, I am part of it. My humble background has allowed me to live modestly, and raise children without the frills. From small Christian teenager I left and I was named regional president of the youth of the National Liberation Movement. Studied economics and won the opposition at Bordeaux University professor. I went four years to Morocco, returned, and in 1967 I went to Paris and stayed here. As a youth I fought at Robert Schuman party, but left when the war in Indochina. I spent the Socialist Party and lasted until the war of Algeria.
P. You did not like Mitterrand?
R. He was a complex and intelligent, too intelligent. True humanism mixed with large areas of shade, especially Vichy old friendships. I had occasion to know him better, but I refused. Yes I met Danielle, his wife, and was a splendid woman, in one piece.
You have to fail to recognize the legal acts signed in tax havens
P. You was a professor at the Sorbonne in May '68. What is today?
R. That generation knew only abundance. Matured without knowing the hard times and thought everything had been given them. But we did wonder about our family relationships and that was a breath of fresh air. I was with my children a confidence that never would have had. Did that family relationships were more natural. That is what was and is very important.
P. Do you think that was a good economist?
R. I have been a special economist, always out of the main circuit. The heads of the roost always tried to force his hand, and when I retired my department cerrrando punished me. Maybe they bother to say that getting carried away by drift virtual financial and economics, history can only end in tragedy, in social decay.
P. Looks like we're at it ...
R. This crisis can not be fixed without a mutation. Before moving oil the world, today is the turn of the virtual and the R & D. We are already in this mutation, but the policy still feels nostalgic legacy of Thatcher and Reagan, and sends the logic of finance, which is the worst condemnation of mankind. As one banker told Tobin: "My longer term, friend, are ten minutes." When the supreme value is the rapid enrichment, the economy ceases to be an instrument for society. The money fluctuates due to the free movement of capital has concentrated above the heads of the states and is now a much stronger power than politics.
It is important that tax evaders lists are published on the internet and the press
P. Solution?
R. Restoring the primacy of politics over finance. Regulate and control them again. Go to the Gordian knot and remove it. One country alone can not. Finance should be monitored while looking ahead inventing a new project. Need I say Europe "is over." Close tax havens and bring the money back. It is very easy. A judge friend, Jean de Maillard, has the solution: While recognizing the legal acts signed in those countries.
P. But politicians do not dare.
R. The problem is that large corporations use tax havens to pay commissions. If you uncover that suddenly, would jeopardize thousands of jobs. So it is important that evaders lists are published in the press. Just as they use the Internet to transfer your funds, we have to use the Internet to tell and finish them. That is unstoppable and does great damage to countries that do not cooperate. When we see the names of fraudsters, understand what happens. The problem is that when money talks, everything seems moral. We have to start telling ourselves that it is sad that the only purpose of life is to earn lots of money. The most positive aspect of this crisis is the awareness of people.
P. Does capitalism is committing suicide?
R. No capitalism, several, or at least takes different forms. The commercial, industrial, financial ... Capitalism is mutating and society itself is mutating. Or invent a new way, and that is their strength, creativity-, or disappear. But we have arrived at a point where it can no longer be a true capitalism. We need to create a new economic system, human values and respects the laws of nature.
P. Do you have any real hope of change?
R. The cold analysis indicates that we are really bad. From a logical standpoint, we're screwed. We've loaded the nature and nanotechnology will play havoc. But history never happens as expected. In 1940, de Gaulle went to London with some crazy, and eventually won the insane. Often history is well. Sometimes the improbable happens. Look, when in 1967 I came to live in the suburbs of Paris, there were hundreds of different bird species. Gradually, they disappeared. But yesterday, my friend Robin came to my garden.
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