A Nobel Prize for economics in a country in crisis: the press highlights … – Boursorama

A Nobel Prize for economics in a country in crisis: the press highlights … – Boursorama

The Nobel economics Jean Tirole, after the literature prize for Patrick Modiano, filled the French press of pride even if the editorialists point out Tuesday “paradox” of consecration occurs in a country in the doldrums.

“Through Patrick Modiano and Jean Tirole, we are clearly rehabilitated: France is not stunted this nation whose culture was extinguished and diluted genius,” boasts La Depeche du Midi from the pen Jean-Claude Souléry. “The Nobel is Toulousain” does not fail also to titrate the daily Pink City.

“This peninsula at the end of Eurasia is not only able to make only neurasthenia in Finland. France knows also create, invent, innovate, “also welcomes Philippe Waucampt in Lorraine’s Republican.

But once expressed satisfaction at seeing France rewarded twice in the same year by the Swedish Academy, the press noted the strange context of this prestigious award.

“This is a proud + + (dixit François Hollande), as much as a paradox. Car Never the internal situation will seem so bad, “says Philippe Marcacci in Eastern Republican.

” There is a certain irony to see France rewarded with a Nobel Prize in economics, even though it may find its retoqué by the European Commission! From the distance between theory and practice … “budget, adds Daniel Muraz in Picardy Mail.

All of which leads to Jean Louis Hervois La Charente free “France knows all about the economy, but it seems too often not understand it.”

“Cynics will quickly thought that the French know better than to talk economy manage,” said Patrice Chabanet in Le Journal de la Haute-Marne.

Alsace and Raymond Couraud, “in the eyes of the stranger, the Nobel Jean Tirol sounds a bit like the Sakharov Prize for Human Rights, which is awarded annually to a dissident misunderstood and mistreated in his country.”

For, “it is true that with 2.000 billion euros of debt, France is not about to get the Nobel good savings,” concludes Jacques Camus (La Montagne / Centre France.)

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