User:Panache

Seems I have 2 panache user pages. One in the french wikipedia, one in the english one. So far I've been an occasional contributor, mostly adding or claryfying articles that I had used. I've been contributing mostly on deflation inflation debt and other monetary related articles.

I m not familiar at all with markings and creating user pages. I bet that will come some day in its time. I also often forget to sign in. So I bet I ve made numerous edits espy on talk pages without ever signing.

In economics, good old institutionalists like Commons are to my taste, Marx is of course a major contributor to the understanding of the economy, and the insights of Keynes are really useful. I'm part of the french economic school called "Economics of convention"

Following this paradigm, I have trouble mainly with austrians, which I find are the most backward economists on earth. I find ridiculous, their belief in self generating markets, opposition to governments. If I'm so hard on them it is because I tend to agree with them on many other subjects. After all they at least are more lucid than the standard neoclassical failures that now run the economic discipline. Those last ones have turned our world economy into the casino about to explode that it is right now. Compared to them the austrians are innocent loonies that want to go back to ancient times when banks could not lend money into existence. way back to good old 18th century and Netherland rule... The problem is that even though austrians oppose the current financial mayhem, and indeed any form of private money creation, they won't side with keynesians and instituationalists in order to call for stricter regulation of the finance industry. They hate government so much that they end up being friends with the monetarists.

I tend to do long sentences which sounds even worse in english as it does in french. I just can't help it.

All this must classify me as a left winger for most of deeply indoctrinated american and even european economists. Alas, Keynes said it, we are ruled by old ideas, monetarists were probably right in the 1970's to be scared about inflation and administrative controls... At the time though they were a vocal minority in an ocean of marxists and keynesian planners. Now those fools run the discipline and the world. Yet now has come the time for more planning. Not less.

So this is me on the economic-political side.

Relating to ethics, I'm also a post kantian, meaning neither utilitarist, nor perfectionist, nor a defender of the ethic of care. But the "Post" means I m open to their contributions, reinterpreted within the kantian unervalistic framework. So I mean we can have a millian turn, and consider that rules are just one way to universalise operations. Well that's a part of my Ph D anyway. That means I'm clearly not a marxist, as I remain on the idealistic rather than on the materialistic side, i believe in free will, volition and so forth. I'm all for democracy this is another reason why I hate the neoclassics and their stupid political choice theory and their austrians fellows with their anti planning bias.

Aside from that I may have contributed to the didgeridoo jew's harp and overtone singing articles, or will, as those are among my hobbies. This even if this is not recorded in my contributions.

I wonder why I have not touched so far articles on management, which is my field of study, probablys because that's work for me, and not something I find fun to contribute to.

I d love to have all those little boxes others sometime have on their pages. If someone passing here can show me how ...

And If someone can tell me how I could have only one panache talkpage for the encyclopias in french and english, I m interested.