Lundi le 18 avril était la journée de retour en classe après un long congé de Pâques. Qui plus est, les étudiants aux cycles supérieurs et le personnel académique du Département d'économie étaient invités à prendre part à une rencontre avec le "Chief economic editor" de la BBC, Evan Davis, qui s'était déplacé malgré les élections britanniques. Diplômé en science politique de l'Université d'Oxford et détenteur d'une maîtrise en administration publique de Harvard, Mr Davis est venu présenter sa vision du commerce international avec l'émergence de la Chine comme joueur principal. Il a d'ailleurs répondu à plusieurs des critiques alarmistes en affirmant, chiffres à l'appui, que la Chine ne produit qu'une minorité des biens et services de consommation au Royaume-Uni et que son intervention sur ces marchés bénéficient largement à l'ensemble de la population en faisant baisser les prix. Même si son discours se rapprochait grandement du discours des économistes, il n'a pas été complaisant à leur endroit, les invitant à revoir nombre de leurs conceptions théoriques de la consommation pour des versions plus collées à la réalité. Franchement, une conférence intéressante et motivante à l'arrivée des examens!
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Monday April 18th was the day back to school after the long easter holliday. Moreover, the graduate students and teaching staff of the School of Economics were invited to participate to a conference given by Evan Davis, the BBC's chief economic editor. Mr Davis has accepted to meet us, even though elections are very demanding for him. Graduate in politics from Oxford University and holder of a MSc in public administration from Harvard, Mr Evans told us his views about international trade with the emergence of China as a major player. He answered most of the questions that people are fearing to be worst off when China enters a market. He argued, with statistics to prove it, that China makes a minority of goods and services consumed in the UK and when China gets involved in a market, the population as whole if better off since it decreases prices. Telling so, he confirmed most of the economic tought about the issue. However, he invited economists to change their theoritical views about some issues such as consumption to adopt a more practical view. Definetely a good and motivating conference with the exams coming!
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Monday April 18th was the day back to school after the long easter holliday. Moreover, the graduate students and teaching staff of the School of Economics were invited to participate to a conference given by Evan Davis, the BBC's chief economic editor. Mr Davis has accepted to meet us, even though elections are very demanding for him. Graduate in politics from Oxford University and holder of a MSc in public administration from Harvard, Mr Evans told us his views about international trade with the emergence of China as a major player. He answered most of the questions that people are fearing to be worst off when China enters a market. He argued, with statistics to prove it, that China makes a minority of goods and services consumed in the UK and when China gets involved in a market, the population as whole if better off since it decreases prices. Telling so, he confirmed most of the economic tought about the issue. However, he invited economists to change their theoritical views about some issues such as consumption to adopt a more practical view. Definetely a good and motivating conference with the exams coming!
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