So our research are validated by the news

U n smuggler. "It is thus that likes to define Philippe Dessertine. A smuggler and a stirrer of ideas. Because this Professor of Economics at the University of Nanterre is present on all fronts: Chronicles in the press (especially in "release"), radio programs, works to success ("this is not a crisis, just the end of a world", Anne Carrière, 2009), participation in the commission of the large loan, chaired by Alain Juppé and Michel Rocard.

This "hot" presence in the media might seem inconsistent to a researcher in hindsight. Not for him: "It is the role of a University to reflect on our society, to to identify the problems and contradictions." We need to be a kind of monitoring. "Because, if he loves teaching - he also kept a course with first year students-, Philippe Dessertine likes above all convey his ideas. If possible beyond the academic world. "Little by little, I noticed that the small circle of the University is not enough." Our work to the Ceros is not interested. I had the feeling that talking to the general public had the sense, that we could offer keys of reading of our environment. So, our research are validated by the news. Suddenly, everyone spoke of this on what we are working for many years. "The crisis, it is true, provides three years ample material to express themselves. Philippe Dessertine was one of the first to point the "sub-prime" and the dangers they were run in the US and world economy. Today, he continues to make the alarm bells. "I am not pessimistic but realistic." The crisis is far from over. It flows from the debt overhang of the West. For decades, we have lived beyond our means, with the support of the policy. This has led to a bubble, housing first and then to a mountain of debt, which knows how to overcome. But in the end, it well to suffer the consequences.

"The risk of a war."

The solution It passes first through an approach resolved sanitation and fiscal wisdom. Even if this strict policy is difficult to pass in the hexagon. "We are a country of dreamers". People do not want to believe in the seriousness of the crisis. We are among the last to expect a recovery. "Denouncing the illusion of a quick exit, Philippe Dessertine Announces instead the difficult aftermath. "Re-entry will be rude." Need a huge effort, or of very long breath, to overcome the wall of the debt that we have accumulated. The pension reform is just a demi-réforme. It is possible, moreover, that the population does not accept this effort. "It does not, in fact, the possibility of a"social explosion"in the coming months. "It policies offer complete trains of measures to accompany the reforms, particularly for the weakest." It must be addressed poverty at the same time as the regulation.

In this context, the worst danger would be, according to academic, break the globalization. "If it is, then we accept the risk of a war." He must keep it, but by establishing strong regulation devices. Globalization has benefited until then to poor countries and emerging countries. How to make it acceptable also for the rich

However, it is very critical of China, of which he denounces the opacity. Europe, it appears as an indispensable part of these new structures put in place. "Governance international, Europe has been a pioneer". The fathers of Europe had the idea that monetary wisdom was a decisive factor for peace.

So far, Philippe Dessertine is not fooled by the interest that reflected it the media. "It seeks me because I have a sense of learning, but also because my ideas are iconoclastic, note." Respond to these demands, it takes time, but it is also one of our missions. But he must know: the media, it is like the Sun. It can dazzle and even blind.