Pascal Petit

Paris 13 University France

Pascal Petit is an economist, and emeritus research officer at CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), attached to the Centre d’Economie de Paris Nord CEPN, University Paris 13 Sorbonne Paris Cité. He has published books and articles on a) economic growth, innovation, and employment, b) structural changes and institutional dynamics, and c) new forms of internationalization and competition, including The hardship of nations: exploring the paths of modern capitalism (Edward Elgar 2006, edited with B. Coriat et G. Schmieder), L’économie Mondiale en 2030: ruptures et continuités Economica 2013, edited with J. Mazier et D. Plihon and Challenges for Europe in the world, 2030, Sage Publications, London, edited with John Eatwell and Terry Mc Kinley eds. (2014).

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Rising Inequalities and Reconstruction of Labour Capital Compromises

By Pascal Petit

The so-called golden years of capitalism took place under the auspices of a broad political consensus that labour should be protected and benefit from economic growth. This compromise eroded in the 1980s and 1990s as shown by the rise in income inequalities and in unemployment. At the turn of the century, it became clear that the sustainability of the global economy was at stake. It is useful in this perspective to assess, as this chapter attempts to do, both the conditions in which the old compromise of the welfare states collapsed and how then the discussions on the sustainable development goals can be implemented and play the role of a new capital labour compromise at world level.

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