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“Economic growth imposes a hectic form of life, producing overwork, stress, nervous depression, cardiovascular disease and, according to some, even the development of cancer,” asserts the three-volume Histoire du XXe siècle, a set of texts memorized by countless French high school students as they prepare for entrance exams to Sciences Po and other prestigious French universities.“

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“France concerned at anti-business bias in teaching

The French government plans an external audit of high school economics textbooks as a result of long-standing worries that they may present an excessively negative view of business.

O Crooked Timber comenta:

“But regardless of the specific merits of Thiel’s attack on French and German education, his broader argument is bad Marxism in reverse. Even if we pass over the claim that classical economics, as taught in US high schools and elsewhere, is ‘straightforward,’ Thiel seems to be suggesting that the entire populations of France and Germany are subject to a particularly crude form of false consciousness. The only possible reason why French and German people might want to oppose swingeing reforms of their welfare states is that they have been duped by their educational overlords into believing that capitalism is the enemy. That people might actually prefer to have stronger welfare states, and even might choose to make tradeoffs between economic growth and economic equality doesn’t enter his argument even as a possibility (nor, for that matter, does the possibility that many Americans might want the same, despite their gobs of entrepreneurship-promoting school curricula &c&c&c).“