Equating the far-right and the left’s economic views and their understanding of economics seems wrong to me. All parties tend to want to minimize the economic sacrifices required to face the growing public debt (including Renaissance which largely fought against the tax increases included in Barnier’s budget). I would say the left (especially since the left is not limited to LFI and that economic views differ within the NFP coalition) is not particularly economically irresponsible. The RN has shown that they have a much worse understanding of economics (no consideration of indirect incidence with their proposals to lower the TVA, lack of understanding by Bardella of their own retirement system proposal and of the reform just passed ect..) and their views are also much more inconsistent (again the retirement reform debate, since they backed out of canceling it). On the other hand while not always proposing the best policies from an economic perspective, the left’s platform has been built with prominent economist such as Gabriel Zucman and economists such as Michel Zemmour have highlighted that alternative reforms to the retirement system exist that would be fairer. Again Renaissance has also enacted economically inefficient policies (credit impôt recherche for instance or immigration reform). I hope that the left wing parties, though very imperfect, can contribute to solving this crisis
There's nothing uniquely French about this. The same breakdown is happening everywhere. The problem is the failure of the policy program espoused by The Economist (neoliberalism/market liberalism) to deliver the promised outcomes, and the absence of an alternative capable of responding to the resulting problems. Any such alternative must involve an expansion of the role of the state, higher taxation and more regulation, as well as removing obsolete regulations, expenditure on low-priority items and so on.
In this context, your claim "One problem of the left coalition is that their economic views are nowadays barely distinguishable from those of the far-right." has it precisely backwards. The left program is pretty much the same as it has always been, moderated in the direction of neoliberalism if anything. It's the right that has abandoned faith in markets, big business and so on.
Equating the far-right and the left’s economic views and their understanding of economics seems wrong to me. All parties tend to want to minimize the economic sacrifices required to face the growing public debt (including Renaissance which largely fought against the tax increases included in Barnier’s budget). I would say the left (especially since the left is not limited to LFI and that economic views differ within the NFP coalition) is not particularly economically irresponsible. The RN has shown that they have a much worse understanding of economics (no consideration of indirect incidence with their proposals to lower the TVA, lack of understanding by Bardella of their own retirement system proposal and of the reform just passed ect..) and their views are also much more inconsistent (again the retirement reform debate, since they backed out of canceling it). On the other hand while not always proposing the best policies from an economic perspective, the left’s platform has been built with prominent economist such as Gabriel Zucman and economists such as Michel Zemmour have highlighted that alternative reforms to the retirement system exist that would be fairer. Again Renaissance has also enacted economically inefficient policies (credit impôt recherche for instance or immigration reform). I hope that the left wing parties, though very imperfect, can contribute to solving this crisis
There's nothing uniquely French about this. The same breakdown is happening everywhere. The problem is the failure of the policy program espoused by The Economist (neoliberalism/market liberalism) to deliver the promised outcomes, and the absence of an alternative capable of responding to the resulting problems. Any such alternative must involve an expansion of the role of the state, higher taxation and more regulation, as well as removing obsolete regulations, expenditure on low-priority items and so on.
In this context, your claim "One problem of the left coalition is that their economic views are nowadays barely distinguishable from those of the far-right." has it precisely backwards. The left program is pretty much the same as it has always been, moderated in the direction of neoliberalism if anything. It's the right that has abandoned faith in markets, big business and so on.
I've been making this point for a decade or so https://crookedtimber.org/2016/02/29/the-three-party-system/
The state is failing, so it should be given more responsibilities and a bigger budget???