ABSTRACT
Solow’s and Blanchard’s appearances in the two most intellectually oriented papers (Le Monde, 12 December 2000 and Liberation, 13 October 2000) of France are not random events, but the result of the difficulty in which the French neoclassicists find themselves since the students’ movement began in June. At the beginning of Fall a counter-manifesto appeared in Le Monde. Its impact has been insignificant and, if anything, it has strengthened the students’ position in the eyes of public opinion. The counter-manifesto ignored all the remarks made by the students in their original manifesto and just harkened back on the scientificity of economics. The paucity of their arguments was striking.
