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S’opère alors un droit d’option : la possibilité pour les agents publics, sortants de l’ANPE, de rejoindre le statut de droit privé de leurs collègues ex-Assédic. La loi du 13 février 2008{212} actant la fondation de Pôle emploi leur offre deux alternatives : choisir la nouvelle convention collective{213} de l’organisme, ou maintenir leur statut d’
... See moreCatherine Fournier • Pôle emploi : la face cachée: Enquête sur la souffrance des agents (SCIENCES HUM HC) (French Edition)
Entrepreneurs can provide collective goods by market means. Many already do so now in real world communities. Foldvary’s case studies show how the privatization of communities can result in new mechanisms for providing and financing public goods and services.35
James Dale Davidson, Lord William Rees-Mogg • The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age
Thus state intervention came to be discredited by a value proposition that was no longer aligned with individual aspirations. The laissez-faire approach was never attractive: it deprived the poor and even the middle class of access to affordable essential services. But the interventionist counter-offer ended up looking not that attractive, either:
... See moreNicolas Colin • Hedge: A Greater Safety Net for the Entrepreneurial Age
every kind of private business is very lucrative, and the State would not be served at all if it did not pay its servants. The country is in the position of a commercial undertaking, which is obliged to sustain an expensive competition, notwithstanding its tastes for economy.]
Alexis de Tocqueville • Democracy in America, Volume I and II (Optimized for Kindle)
so-called great risk shift, through which corporate America has stabilized its own income statements over a generation by off-loading uncertainty onto workers; and the ways in which shareholders were running companies more and more for themselves, to the detriment of every other stakeholder.
Anand Giridharadas • Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World

... See moreThe method [super normal returns model] wrongly assumes that taxes on quasi-rents and other transitory earnings due to imperfect competition or risk premiums cannot be shifted to labor. Earnings in these sectors are clearly sensitive to tax. Taxes on returns in these sectors alter output, prices, and wages, and thus fall heavily on labor, and not,
Jason Kottke • Our Unpleasant Privatized Reality
a test question could have an amateur fiduciary spending the interest payments received on Treasury Bonds when that money should, instead, be going into the estate account and eventually distributed to the other beneficiaries. That would be a matter of self-dealing and “breach of fiduciary duty” regardless of her knowledge of the securities industr
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