{"id":68489,"date":"2007-02-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2007\/02\/04\/horizon-project-ou-le-patriotisme-economique-a-lamericaine\/"},"modified":"2007-02-04T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-04T00:00:00","slug":"horizon-project-ou-le-patriotisme-economique-a-lamericaine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2007\/02\/04\/horizon-project-ou-le-patriotisme-economique-a-lamericaine\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cHorizon Project<\/em>\u201d, ou le patriotisme \u00e9conomique \u00e0 l’am\u00e9ricaine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Il est aujourd’hui admis, quoique encore assez peu connu, que le nouveau Congr\u00e8s \u00e0 majorit\u00e9 d\u00e9mocrate est largement m\u00e9fiant, voire hostile au libre-\u00e9change d\u00e9cha\u00een\u00e9 tel que la globalisation actuelle l’implique. Robert Kuttner, de l’Economic Policy Institute, nous donne les derni\u00e8res nouvelles \u00e0 cet \u00e9gard, dans un article du Boston Globe<\/em> (repris le 3 f\u00e9vrier<\/a> sur CommonDreams.org<\/em>)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tKuttner \u00e9crit que les nouveaux parlementaires (freshmen<\/em>) sont dans une \u00e9crasante majorit\u00e9 des fair-traders<\/em> (partisans du fair-trade<\/em> de pr\u00e9f\u00e9rence au free-trade<\/em> : un libre-\u00e9change contr\u00f4l\u00e9 d’une main ferme par les autorit\u00e9s du pays qui le pratique) : \u00abThirty-nine of the 42 freshman Democrats in the House recently sent a letter to the Democratic leadership warning their leaders off the Bush trade agenda. In the Senate, five of the six Democrats who picked up Republican-held Senate seats have joined a new populist caucus, insisting on fairer trade rules.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tCette nouvelle orientation du Congr\u00e8s n’est pas une r\u00e9action seulement politique et populiste contre la globalisation. Elle est suivie et soutenue par une partie non n\u00e9gligeable du monde \u00e9conomique. Il s’agit de l’\u00e9quivalent du patriotisme \u00e9conomique fran\u00e7ais, organis\u00e9 ici par des forces non-gouvernementales, ce qui n’est pas un vrai d\u00e9savantage dans ce cas si l’on consid\u00e8re l’\u00e9tat path\u00e9tique o\u00f9 se trouve le gouvernement.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tBref, il s’agit de Horizon Project <\/a> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00abWhy does America need more bilateral trade deals, whose purpose is mainly to help US-based industry move production offshore? The liberal Economic Policy Institute (on whose board I serve) has called for a pause in such deals until the United States can reassess its economic interest in the face of globalism, and adopt policies to match.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbIt’s one thing for progressive Democratic politicians to raise these issues. But the most remarkable new proposal, in a week when free trade was very much on the defensive, came from a group of corporate CEOs, none of whom can be dismissed as self-interested protectionists.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbThe report, released Thursday by the newly organized Horizon Project, called for a healthy economic nationalism, of the sort practiced by every other major trading nation save perhaps Britain. The test, the report argued, should be not what benefits US-based corporations but what is good for America its workers, communities, technology base, and ultimately its economy.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbThe analysis is astute read it at www.horizonproject.us but more remarkable are the report’s signatories. The project was organized and signed by major corporate CEOs led by Leo Hindery, Jr., former CEO of AT&T Broadband and the cable giant TCI; and including Alfred Berkeley III, former president of NASDAQ; Leonard Schaffer, Founding CEO of WellPoint, the health insurance giant; and Bernard Schwartz, CEO of Loral, the high-tech defense and aerospace company. Another key leader, and intellectual inspiration of this effort, is Ralph Gomory, president of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and former chief scientist of IBM.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbContrary to the usual premise that the current trading system helps both America and its trading partners, the report declares that globalization under present rules makes it easier for US multinational corporations to use cheap labor overseas and then import the finished goods back to the United States. In the process they are building up the capabilities of the emerging Asian states and reducing the capabilities of the United States.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbThe group is not against trade, it just wants much tougher policies to promote symmetrical practices by trading partners, enforced if necessary by tariffs. The Horizon Project also favors substantial new public spending on infrastructure, research, education and training, to help America compete.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\tMis en ligne le 4 f\u00e9vrier 2007 \u00e0 16H48<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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