FACTOID #8:Israel's per capita military expenditure is the highest in the world, at over $1,400 per person. Syria, still officially at war with Israel, spends $46.51 per person on its military.
"...car enfin, ce Tiers Monde ignoré, exploité, méprisé comme le Tiers Etat, veut lui aussi, être quelque chose"
"...because at the end this ignored, exploited, scorned Third World like the Third Estate, wants to become something too".
In using the expression Third World here he was paraphrasing Sieyès's famous sentence about the Third State during the French Revolution. Sauvy assimilated then the capitalist First world to the nobility and the communist Second World to the clergy. It has been suggested that Emmanuel J. Sièyes be merged into this article or section. ... In France of the ancien régime and the age of the French Revolution, the term Third Estate (tiers état) indicated the generality of people which were not part of the clergy (the First Estate) nor of the nobility (the Second Estate). ... During the French Revolution (1789-1799) democracy and republicanism overthrew the absolute monarchy in France, and the French portion of the Roman Catholic Church was forced to undergo radical restructuring. ...
Sauvy coined the term Third World (Tiers Monde) in reference to the underdeveloped countries in an article published in the French magazine The Observer on August 14, 1952.
AlfredSauvy was a polytechnician, which meant that he was convinced to own a universal knowledge.
Sauvy was a population student but not a demographer: the distinction that Libby Schweber has drawn for the XIXth c still holds true, in a different way, for the mid-XXth c.
For Sauvy, as for Landry, as for Lotka, or even a century earlier for Bertillon, demography would be a welcoming field, at one and the same time unforeseen, restricted but generous, a space of freedom caught between established disciplines which invariably expelled marginals who disobeyed their rules.
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