Alain Lipietz

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Alain Lipietz

Alain Lipietz (born September 19, 1947 as Alain Guy Lipiec in Charenton-le-Pont , Département Val-de-Marne ) is a French engineer , economist and politician of the French Greens .

The green economist

Lipietz studied from 1966 at the École polytechnique and later at the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées , where he obtained his diploma in 1971. In 1972 he also achieved his master's degree in economics.

After his studies he was 1971-1973 researcher at the Institut de recherche des transports (Transport Research Institute) and 1973 to 1999 at the Center d'études prospectives d'économie - Mathématiques appliquées à la planification (Center for Future Economic Studies - Applied Mathematics for planification ). In 1988 he became Director of Research at the Center national de la recherche scientifique (National Science Research Center ). Since 1990 he has been chief engineer of the Corps des ponts et chaussées .

Since the beginning of his career he has devoted himself to the analysis of socio-economic relationships within human communities. He has published several articles on regulation theory .

He edited a synthesis of a world study on the relations between capital and labor for the University of the United Nations and coordinated a study on the positions of the various countries of the world on the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (Rio 1992) for UNESCO .

Commitment to political ecology

Lipietz is a former Maoist . From 1968 to 1971 he belonged to the small Parti socialiste unifié . In 1986 he was a candidate of the French Greens for the National Assembly in the Seine-Saint-Denis department . Eleven years later he became the national spokesman for the French Greens. From 1999 to 2009, Lipetz was an elected member of the Green Party in the European Parliament . In 2004 he was re-elected as a Member of Parliament.

In this capacity, he was a member of the Economic and Monetary Commission and a deputy in the Employment and Social Affairs Commission of the European Parliament. He participated in Third Sector Intergroups, OMC and Initiatives for Peace and was a member of the parliamentary delegation for South America and Mercosur .

Lipietz is also an advisor to the Economic Commission of the Greens, since 2000 a member of the Commission française du développement durable (= French Commission for Sustainable Development) and since 2001 a member of the Conseil d'établissement du Collège de France (= company council of the College of France).

He was appointed by Prime Minister Lionel Jospin to the Council for Economic Analysis in July 1997 and to the Supreme Council for International Cooperation in September 1999.

On June 21, 2001, Lipietz was chosen as the French Greens' presidential candidate for the 2002 presidential elections . With 50% of the vote, he narrowly beat his rival Noël Mamère in the internal party elections .

A first controversy arose in the summer of 2001, for because of bombings as Lipietz sympathies Corsica condemned separatists seemed to have. A second conflict concerned the reopening of the Mont Blanc tunnel between France and Italy , which had been closed since 1999 after a fire that left 39 dead. In the meantime, the party had dropped from 7 to 5 percent in opinion polls.

Ultimately, Les Verts managed to survive an internal crisis and, on October 14, swapped their candidate Alain Lipietz for Noël Mamère.

For his trial (2005/06) against the French railway company for the deportation of his father Georges Lipietz to Drancy see SNCF .

Publications

  • The great transformation of the 21st century. A draft of political ecology . Munster 2000.
  • After the end of the "Golden Age". Regulation and transformation of capitalist societies . Hamburg (Argument Vlg) AS No. 255, 1998, ISBN 3886192555
  • Vert-espérance - Le futur de l'écologie politique (Green Hope - The Future of Political Ecology) 1993
  • Berlin, Baghdad, Rio: le XXIè siècle est commencé (Berlin, Baghdad, Rio: The 21st Century Has Begun) 1992
  • Mirages et miracles - Problèmes de l'industrialisation dans le Tiers-Monde (Fata Morgana and Miracles - Problems of Industrialization in the Third World) 1985
  • L'audace ou l'enlisement - Sur les politiques économiques de la gauche (The boldness or the reform bottleneck - On the economic policy of the left) 1984
  • The Wealth of Regions - Towards a Socio-economical Geography (The Wealth of Regions - Contribution to a Socio-Economic Geography ) Ed. With G. Benko 2000
  • What is Political Ecology? The Great Transformation of XXI. century (What is Political Ecology? The Great Transformation of the 21st Century) 1998
  • Hour-glass Society - Job Sharing versus Social Exclusion ( Hour-Glass Society - Job Sharing versus Social Exclusion ) 1996
  • Phaedra - Identification of a Crime (Phaedra - Identification of a Crime) 1992
  • The Winning Regions , edited with G. Benko 1992
  • Towards a New Economic Order: Post-Fordism, Ecology, Democracy (For a New Economic Order: Post-Fordism, Ecology, Democracy ) 1989
  • The crisis with Clerc & Satre-Buisson, 1983
  • The Enchanted World - Inflation, Credit and the Global Crises 1982
  • Crisis and Inflation: Why? (Crisis and Inflation: Why?) 1979
  • Capital and its Space 1977
  • The Urban Land Tribute 1974

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SURNAME Lipietz, Alain
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lipiec, Alain Guy (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French economist, engineer and politician, MEP
DATE OF BIRTH September 19, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Charenton-le-Pont , Val-de-Marne department , France