Can We Transform the Auto-Industrial Society? by Emma Rothschild | The New York Review of Books
▻http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2009/02/26/can-we-transform-the-auto-industrial-society
Attention archives, un texte de fond intéressant de 2009
The cataclysm of the American automobile industry has been an odd combination, so far, of immediate and historical anxieties. The government loan of $13.4 billion to General Motors and Chrysler in December 2008 was presented by the outgoing administration as an unsolicited gift, lest a “disorderly liquidation of American auto companies” should “leave the next President to confront the demise of a major American industry in his first days of office.” It was restricted explicitly to the very short term: “The firms must use these funds to become financially viable…. In the event that firms have not attained viability by March 31, 2009, the loan will be called.”1