Supremacy of shareholders, taxi regulation, happiness and daily life: The life of ideas Today publishes the continuation of the report of the debates which brought together economists, practitioners of economic and general public life during the first edition of the days of the economy, in Lyon, last November.
Summary :
– Happiness and daily life
It is a new and relatively exotic theme for economists that was discussed during this round table: happiness. Based on data from international surveys where individuals are asked about their well-being, economists try to identify the sources of variation in happiness with macroeconomic and microeconomic levels.
– Shareholders’ supremacy
While John K. Galbraith worried in the new industrial state (1967) of taking power within companies by managers, the last twenty years have been marked by a return in force of capital holders in the business management bodies. Corporate governance is regularly presented as an explanatory factor in the historic financial crisis in the world today. The speakers of this round table therefore register in the immediate news by questioning the “ Supremacy of shareholders ».
– Should we deregulate taxis ?
The debates of this round table focused on the regulation of the number of taxis to meet demand. The case of taxis thus appears as a case of a school of political economy of reform: how to increase the number of taxis without penalizing the craftsmen in place too much ?
See also, the complete file bringing together the various interventions to the 2008 economy days.