Alain Lipietz
Biographic Data
| ID | 760115 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alain Lipietz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alain |
| FAMILY NAME | Lipietz |
| SIGNATURE | LIPIETZ A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Centre Pour La Recherche Economique et ses Applications |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 78 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 291 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 78 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
L’empowerment, une pratique émancipatrice, by Marie-Hélène Bacqué, and Carole Biewener
Marie-Hélène Bacqué and Carole Biewener's book presents to French readers the genealogy of the uses of the untranslatable English word "empowerment." The book traces its unfolding in various social theories and practices and follows its lines of evolution from radicalism to liberalism and neoliberalism. The book explores the nuances between the English word empowerment and its best French proxy, emancipation, and also examines another faux-ami: l…
Fears and hopes: The crisis of the liberal-productivist model and its green alternative
The present world crisis is not a mere financial crisis, but the crisis of the liberal-productivist model of development, dominant from 1980. This article analyses the crisis - an over-accumulation crisis stemming from the weakness of labour-share, combined with a double ecological crisis (food, energy/climate) - in its social and ecological dimensions, according to the concepts of regulation theory. Due to its ecological aspects, the exit from t…
Les emplois verts: Mythe Ou Réalité
Caracteres seculares y coyunturales de la intervención económica del Estado
Para hacer una revaluación de la noción marxista de Estado, en este artículo se destacan algunos aspectos del mismo, como son su condición de ser tanto aparato represor corno regulador, y el de ser fruto tanto de la división de intereses de la sociedad como del necesario compromiso entre sus partes. Así, no puede entenderse el Estado sin acompañarlo de la idea de hegemonía, con lo cual se desarrolla una nueva metodología para comprender las diver…
Questions sur les biens communs
Si un large consensus se dessine désormais sur la nécessité de préserver les biens communs que sont la biodiversité, la forêt amazonienne ou encore le climat, quelle est la meilleure manière de procéder ? À l'encontre d'une littérature engagée qui voit dans cette thématique une annexe du non-marchand et du don réciproque, il faut rappeler que le recours au marché et la régulation par l'État resteront deux outils indispensables pour organiser des …
Parlement européen: Les chantiers du Green Deal et les contraintes des traités
Estas diez perspectivas posibles para Europa no concluyen el dossier, sino que abren el debate. Pretenden ofrecer visiones marcadas por la razón, pero también por la pasión federal. Hay que crear «tribunas» europeas que den al Europarlamento un rol preponderante sobre el Consejo y la Comisión. Debe ampliar sus competencias a cuestiones sociales (violencia sexual, ecología) y altamente estratégicas, como la guerra. Europa debe abrirse en lugar de …
À la recherche d'un modèle de croissance
Dans ce dialogue, les deux économistes de la « régulation » soulignent que les événements de 2007-2008 marquent la fin d'un type de développement, celui du « postfordisme » et de la valeur actionnariale. C'est donc un autre modèle qui doit lui succéder, moins injuste socialement, qui ne pourra pas ignorer les contraintes environnementales. Comment en dessiner les contours
AndrÉ Gorz and Our Youth
Andre Gorz died in September 2007. He is well known to English readers on the Left through works such as Farewell to the Working Class (1982), Paths to Paradise (1985), and Reclaiming Work (2000). He was cofounder of the weekly publication Le Nouvel Observateur, where he wrote under the pen name Michel Bosquet. In the final piece in this issue, Alain Lipietz pays tribute to Gorz and reflects on their youth during the 1960s and on subsequent devel…
André Gorz et notre jeunesse
Dans Réforme et Révolution , que Gorz avait publié en 1969, j'avais appris - et ce n'était pas très facile, dans l'exaltationpost-soixante-huitarde - à me défier du « tout ou rien », du mythe du grand soir par lequel on changerait d'un coup les rapports de production. J'avais appris qu'il y avait d'énormes marges de transformation à l'intérieur même du capitalisme : ce que nous allions montrer, en tant que chercheurs, avec l'approche de la régula…
La Paix contre la Justice ? Un bilan personnel
Dès les années 1980, lorsqu'il travaillait comme économiste en Amérique du Sud, Alain Lipietz fut confronté au débat entre amnistie et lutte contre l'impunité. Et plus récemment, avec « l'affaire Corse » (lors de sa candidature présidentielle en 2001), puis lors du procès intenté contre l'État et la SNCF par ses parents, au sujet de leur « transfert » vers Drancy. Ces affaires lui valurent de virulentes campagnes de presse où il fut tour à tour p…
L'écologie politique, ou jumelle du féminisme: Petite Sœur
Pauvreté, crise du climat et agrocarburants
Le développement des agrocarburants n'a pas seulement pour effet de réduire à la famine les plus démunis. Il se fait au détriment des droits sur leurs terres des communautés paysannes (pensons aux 4 millions d'hectares volés par les paramilitaires colombiens et replantés en palmiers à huile). Il se fait au détriment de la biodiversité, des dernières forêts primitives, comme en Indonésie où disparaissent les écosystèmes des orangs-outangs, des zon…
Vérité, justice, réconciliation ou comment concilier l'inconciliable
Gorz, ou la quête du sens
Un autre rapport à la nature
Resumé La nature n'est plus un simple objet de conquête, où l'homme peut puiser. Dans son rapport à celle-ci, il est renvoyé à lui-même
L'écologie politique, avenir du marxisme
Marx et la Nature
L'Amérique du Sud au carrefour
Amérique latine: Les Racines Du Tournant À Gauche
Du rouge au vert. Portrait de A. Lipietz par Alain L
Les « Bingos », agents involontaires d'une écologie de droite internationale
Kyoto, Johannesburg, Baghdad: A Postscript to What Is Political Ecology
The National and the Regional: Their Autonomy Vis‐a‐Vis the Capitalist World Crisis
A ecologia política e o futuro do marxismo
A ecologia política representa o movimento por excelência capaz de transformar a realidade tendo por base a análise teórica, a militância e a luta política. Militantes e intelectuais, advindos do movimento trabalhista, estão se encontrando no movimento ecológico. O artigo se propõe a debater a relação entre o marxismo e a ecologia política, acentuando suas semelhanças e elementos que os marxistas estariam redescobrindo através da discussão ecológ…
Johannesburg, victoire morale
New Technologies, New Modes of Regulation: Some Spatial Implications
New technologies can be implemented by means of intensified polarization of skills or by means of increased responsibility (involvement) for workers. These outcomes may be associated with rigid or flexible forms of wage contracting and with individual or collective forms of negotiation. Three classes of models emerge, labelled here neo-Taylorist, Californian, and Saturnian. In terms of industrial organization, new technologies tend to engender sp…
The Local and the Global: Regional Individuality or Interregionalism
Thinking about economic spaces has always been divided between two momenta of a dialectic: locality and globality; or regional personality versus interregional (international) division of labour. Even in the most extreme versions of these pairs (central-place theory, stage of development theory, dependency theory), considerations pertaining to the other sides were implicity taken into account. This is also true in the 'new orthodoxies' of 'the ne…
The post-Fordist world: Labour relations, international hierarchy and global ecology
This article was first presented as the RIPE annual lecture at Durham University on 7 November 1995. It seeks to explore the transformation of the capital-labour relation in the aftermath of the postwar crisis of Fordism. It examines how various solutions to this crisis, in the developed world, the newly industrialized world and, latterly, the former socialist bloc, have brought about a radical restructuring of the world's economic hierarchy. One…
Accumulation, Crises, and Ways Out: Some Methodological Reflections on the Concept of “Regulation”
Crise et inflation, pourquoi
Reflections on a Tale: The Marxist Foundations of the Concepts of Regulation and Accumulation
Reflections on a Tale: The Marxist Foundations of the Concepts of Regulation and Accumulation*." Studies in Political Economy, 26(1), pp. 7–36
Political ecology and the future of Marxism
A regulationist approach to the future of urban ecology∗
Imperialism or the beast of the apocalypse
This paper starts with a critique of some biases in the theories of imperialism, dependancy and the international division of labour (IDL) such as holism, functionalism and the primacy of external causes. It is suggested that an analysis based on regimes of accumulation and modes of regulation might avoid these pitfalls. Such an analysis argues that a new IDL is being superimposed upon the old IDL with its characteristic divisions between centre …
Social Europe: The post‐Maastricht challenge
In Europe as in the world, national economies are following divergent trajectories in their way out of the crisis of Fordism. Some rely on 'negotiated involvement of workers', others on the flexibility of the wage contract. This creates a centre‐periphery type hierarchy between countries. Unfortunately the Maastricht treaty implies rules of the game which induce countries to shift towards the 'flexibility' solution. The text advocates some reform…
De la régulation aux conventions: Le Grand Bond en Arrière
Inter-regional polarisation and the tertiarisation of society
Fears and hopes: The crisis of the liberal-productivist model and its green alternative
The present world crisis is not a mere financial crisis, but the crisis of the liberal-productivist model of development, dominant from 1980. This article analyses the crisis - an over-accumulation crisis stemming from the weakness of labour-share, combined with a double ecological crisis (food, energy/climate) - in its social and ecological dimensions, according to the concepts of regulation theory. Due to its ecological aspects, the exit from t…
The third sector: Resolving the crisis of the welfare state
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Geography, Ecology, Democracy
Critical geography must go beyond the spaces of power to political ecology. Human activity is necessarily ecological, and so too are politics and democracy. Thus, the regulation of environmental contradictions raises fundamental issues of democratic politics and principles of social justice. The answers to environmental crises are not to be found in the state or the market, the two leviathans, but in the ability of humans to govern themselves dem…
The World Crisis: The globalisation of the general crisis of Fordism
The present crisis in the world economy is traced to the exhaustion of ‘Fordism’, the ‘regime of accumulation’ consolidated in North America and Western Europe after 1945 in which mass production technology led to rapid increases in labour productivity, while new wage?bargaining systems and welfare states averted a crisis of overproduction such as that in the 1930s. The decline in profits from the late 1960s onwards was ultimately met by monetari…
Structuration De L'espace Problème Foncier et Aménagement Du Territoire
La dimension spatiale de l'articulation des modes de production, dans leurs différentes branches, est la constitution d'espaces régionaux inégalement développés. Sur cette base matérielle se développent à leur tour une nouvelle division du travail et de nouveaux schémas d'accumulation, différents selon les régions ('centres' ou 'périphéries'). Au stade du capital monopoliste, celui-ci peut organiser à l'échelle interrégionale des 'circuits de bra…
AndrÉ Gorz and Our Youth
Andre Gorz died in September 2007. He is well known to English readers on the Left through works such as Farewell to the Working Class (1982), Paths to Paradise (1985), and Reclaiming Work (2000). He was cofounder of the weekly publication Le Nouvel Observateur, where he wrote under the pen name Michel Bosquet. In the final piece in this issue, Alain Lipietz pays tribute to Gorz and reflects on their youth during the 1960s and on subsequent devel…
A ecologia política e o futuro do marxismo
A ecologia política representa o movimento por excelência capaz de transformar a realidade tendo por base a análise teórica, a militância e a luta política. Militantes e intelectuais, advindos do movimento trabalhista, estão se encontrando no movimento ecológico. O artigo se propõe a debater a relação entre o marxismo e a ecologia política, acentuando suas semelhanças e elementos que os marxistas estariam redescobrindo através da discussão ecológ…
From the regulation of space to the space of regulation
The third sector and the stakeholder
Is there now a new and sustainable model for cities and, indeed, for society as a whole? Is that what all the talk about sustainability, empowerment, stakeholders, partnership, the third sector is essentially about? Or are these terms elements of a new rhetoric that seems, but only seems, to point in that direction? We publish here two extracts from our conference (of the above title) of 21–22 May 1996 which addressed these issues. Bob Catterall,…
Social Europe, Legitimate Europe: The Inner and Outer Boundaries of Europe
The legitimation of Europe as a ‘homeland’ does not depend only upon formal democracy, but upon a social compromise, as the example of the unification of Germany has shown. But this unification of a social Europe matches two problems, (1) The different nations constituting the EC are already engaged in different paths. Legitimation of the EC requires more integration of its social governance, (2) The other countries at the boundary of the EC (Eas…
La régulation: Les mots et les choses A propos de La théorie de la régulation: une approche critique
Industries et métropoles dans le tiers monde
Industrien und Metropolen in der Dritten Welt. Warum wachsen in den Industrieländern die Großstädte nicht mehr, während sie sich in der Dritten Welt immer noch weiter ausdehnen ? Der «Fordismus» steuert die Beziehungen zwischen Produktion und Konsumtion nicht in jedem Land auf die selbe Weise. Die Industrialisierung der Dritten Welt bleibt peripher, da sie den Massenkonsum in den Industrieländern und beiläufig den Konsum der in den lokalen Metrop…
How Monetarism Has Choked Third World Industrialization
The thirteenth of August 1982. The default of a major Third World debtor, long expected to be the overture to a world financial collapse, burst like a thunderbolt in a sky heavy with clouds. Mexico announced that it was suspending payments, and all the other major borrowers, and
Structuration De L'espace Problème Foncier et Aménagement Du Territoire
La dimension spatiale de l'articulation des modes de production, dans leurs différentes branches, est la constitution d'espaces régionaux inégalement développés. Sur cette base matérielle se développent à leur tour une nouvelle division du travail et de nouveaux schémas d'accumulation, différents selon les régions ('centres' ou 'périphéries'). Au stade du capital monopoliste, celui-ci peut organiser à l'échelle interrégionale des 'circuits de bra…
Inter‐regional Polarisation and the Tertiarisation of Society
Inter-regional polarisation and the tertiarisation of society
Crise et inflation, pourquoi
Choisir sa gauche
Redéploiement industriel: Le Legs Du Libéralisme
Credit Money: A Condition Permitting Inflationary Crisis
An examination of the notion of pure credit money within the framework of Marxist theory of the value form. The necessary conditions according to Marxist theory for any instrument to serve in the capacity of money are indicated, and the development of the fetishism of value is investigated, with the latter being found to be the basis for the transition from commodity money to credit money. The theoretical prerequisites and the historical genesis …
Derrière la crise: La tendance à la baisse du taux de profit. L'apport de quelques travaux français récents
[fre] La tendance à la chute du taux de profit résulte de la hausse de la composition du capital, expression de la lutte des classes dans la production. Le Théorème d'Okishio, basé sur l'hypothèse d'un salaire réel constant, et imputant à la seule concurrence le changement technique, ne saurait démontrer l'inviabilité de cette tendance. Pire, ses hypothèses sont incompatibles avec les conditions réelles de l'accumulation intensive, où les gains d…
Towards Global Fordism
Is the ‘industrialization of the Third World’ the spectre which now haunts old Europe? Certainly in the apologetic discourse of governments, as well as in the obsessional thinking of trade-union leaders, the resulting ‘unfair competition’ is at the root of the jobs crisis in the old industries. But
Marx or Rostow
Reading John Sender’s glowing introduction to Bill Warren’s ‘Imperialism, Pioneer of Capitalism’, I thought I could recognize several of the themes broached in my article on ‘Towards Global Fordism?’. But unfortunately, although Warren’s book has the great merit of identifying many weighty issues for Marxists in the dominated
Which Social Forces are for Change
Do you remember the debate about the two cultures on the Left? It was the big hit of the “dark, years,” from 1978-1980. On my Left (?), the valiant defenders of Marxism and the exploited, enemies of the “consensus” and “neo-social-democracy” and the “neo-petty-bourgeoisie,” nostalgic defenders of the State and of “progress-all-the-same.” On my Right (?), the deplorers of Statism and productivism, the champions of autonomy and the New Social Movem…
How Monetarism Has Choked Third World Industrialization
The thirteenth of August 1982. The default of a major Third World debtor, long expected to be the overture to a world financial collapse, burst like a thunderbolt in a sky heavy with clouds. Mexico announced that it was suspending payments, and all the other major borrowers, and
Imperialism or the beast of the apocalypse
This paper starts with a critique of some biases in the theories of imperialism, dependancy and the international division of labour (IDL) such as holism, functionalism and the primacy of external causes. It is suggested that an analysis based on regimes of accumulation and modes of regulation might avoid these pitfalls. Such an analysis argues that a new IDL is being superimposed upon the old IDL with its characteristic divisions between centre …
The World Crisis: The globalisation of the general crisis of Fordism
The present crisis in the world economy is traced to the exhaustion of ‘Fordism’, the ‘regime of accumulation’ consolidated in North America and Western Europe after 1945 in which mass production technology led to rapid increases in labour productivity, while new wage?bargaining systems and welfare states averted a crisis of overproduction such as that in the 1930s. The decline in profits from the late 1960s onwards was ultimately met by monetari…
Behind the Crisis: The Exhaustion of a Regime of Accumulation. A "regulation school" perspective on some French empirical works
The theory of a fall in the rate of profit due to a rise in the organic composition of capital has been too quickly discarded in recent years. A mathematical theorem shows that this phenomenon is viable under a "monopoly regulation." Data suggest that both a rise in organic composition and a "productivity-pull profit squeeze" could be at the root of the present crisis.
Y a-t-il encore des idées de gauche
Acumulación, crisis y salidas a la crisis: Algunas reflexiones metodológicas en torno a la noción de regulación
Una revista científica, con revisión por pares, que publica investigación empírica y contribuciones teóricas en sociología, antropología, sociodemografía, y disciplinas afines. Nuestra misión es presentar los resultados de la investigación de la más alta calidad, con énfasis en América Latina, pero con proyección y alcance global
Industries et métropoles dans le tiers monde
Industrien und Metropolen in der Dritten Welt. Warum wachsen in den Industrieländern die Großstädte nicht mehr, während sie sich in der Dritten Welt immer noch weiter ausdehnen ? Der «Fordismus» steuert die Beziehungen zwischen Produktion und Konsumtion nicht in jedem Land auf die selbe Weise. Die Industrialisierung der Dritten Welt bleibt peripher, da sie den Massenkonsum in den Industrieländern und beiläufig den Konsum der in den lokalen Metrop…
La régulation: Les mots et les choses A propos de La théorie de la régulation: une approche critique
Accumulation, Crises, and Ways Out: Some Methodological Reflections on the Concept of “Regulation”
Reflections on a Tale: The Marxist Foundations of the Concepts of Regulation and Accumulation
Reflections on a Tale: The Marxist Foundations of the Concepts of Regulation and Accumulation*." Studies in Political Economy, 26(1), pp. 7–36
New Technologies, New Modes of Regulation: Some Spatial Implications
New technologies can be implemented by means of intensified polarization of skills or by means of increased responsibility (involvement) for workers. These outcomes may be associated with rigid or flexible forms of wage contracting and with individual or collective forms of negotiation. Three classes of models emerge, labelled here neo-Taylorist, Californian, and Saturnian. In terms of industrial organization, new technologies tend to engender sp…
The Debt Problem, European Integration and the New Phase of World Crisis
The market crash of October 1987 and the tremor of 1989 both prompted speculation that some replay of the 1929 crisis was in prospect. When the markets recovered, a cry of relief went up: ‘The Crisis Is Over’. But in reality the crisis has persisted now for more
O problema da dívida e a nova fase da crise mundial
Este artigo trata das fases e problemas da crise de transição do "fordismo" para uma nova ordem e um novo modelo de crescimento da economia mundial. As duas respostas diferentes aos problemas de queda de produtividade - redução radical dos custos trabalhistas ou um novo contrato social - são apontadas como determinantes da evolução da crise e, em especial, do desenvolvimento do déficit comercial americano e da dívida do Tesouro, e do terceiro mun…
Dívida, senhoriagem e inflação em economia do tipo brasileiro
Os novos países industrializados apresentaram algumas semelhanças em sua dinâmica inflacionária, principalmente com forte monopolização e política salarial. Outra característica é a manipulação da taxa de câmbio para atender a metas específicas, desconsiderando os perigos da inflação. Este artigo visa compreender esse processo, principalmente como as moedas locais começaram a perder seu papel de reserva de valor, a dolarização presente nessas eco…
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