Justified Resistance

Escrevi o texto que se segue na caixa de comentários deste ensaio publicado em "Der Spiegel" em que se afirma que a França é um país profundamente nostálgico, narcisista e resistente às "reformas". Mais afirma o ensaísta, com intolerável paternalismo, que é isso que a torna um país "encantador."

France resists reform as defined by others. This is the rational thing to do if you believe, as France has every reason to believe, that "reform" is going in the wrong direction. This is what most reputed economists all over the world have been saying for the last four years, with the exception of the Goldman Sachs-trained hacks currently in charge in the EU. It is also what an increasing amount of empirical evidence is confirming.

We should therefore ask ourselves if the real problem is France's resistance to "reform" or Germany's resistance to basic economic rationality.