Eric Maurin

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Eric Maurin , economist and Sociologist French, is research director with the École of the high studies in social sciences.

He is the author of two books published by the Republic of the ideas: the Equality of possible the and the French Ghetto, inquires into social separatism . He is also the author of the new school question. Benefit of democratization published in 2007 with the Threshold.

In the French Ghetto , it exposes the phenomenon of Gentrification which developed in the cities. In the first time of this work, it defines the French company as fragmented, because of the multiple strategies of avoidance installation by each social group to secure group located directly in lower part of him and to approach that located at the top. In the second time, and thanks to many studies referred to, it shows that these strategies do not rest on fears fantasmées but on real inequalities, in particular vis-a-vis the school system, defined by the relations of vicinity and their effects. Lastly, it tries to define what the policies should set up aiming at restoring a better social diversity, after having shown its collective utility.

In " The new scolaire" question; , he proposes an assessment of the policies of school democratization followed since the post-war period. Drawing from the experiments French, but also Scandinavian, British or American, it shows not only that the school expansion paid, but also that its continuation is today necessary to face the new economic world which is announced.

Old Administrator of INSEE, it is graduate Polytechnic school and Ensae.

According to the list stopped at November 11th, 2003, he was member of the scientific Committee of orientation of the association founded by Michel Rocard and Dominique Strauss-Kahn, On the left in Europe.

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