Jean-Pierre Petit

The Stock Exchange Renewal and Rupture

The current stock market crisis followed the period of fastest growth in world markets in history. How can this be explained? And what does it indicate for the future? While the bullish market that preceded the crisis was hyper-inflationist, we are now experiencing a period of deflation, a drop following on the heels of a vertiginous rise. In this respect, Petit’s interpretation is that of the regulationists: the crisis is one of confidence. He also describes how the crisis has revealed structural weaknesses in various countries. Jean-Pierre Petit is head of economic research for the investment company Exane.

Fouazia Farida Charfi

Science Under the Veil

A vigorous defence of science combined with an appeal to Tunisians to look ahead and not turn their backs on the future

Claude Dagens

What Are Catholicism’s Proposals for Education and Schooling?

Raymond Boudon, Robert Leroux

Does Sociology Still Exist?

Dominique Rousseau

The Fifth French Republic Is Dying! Long Live Democracy!

The First French Republic was consular, the Second was presidential, the Third and Fourth were parliamentary, but the Fifth seems to have no distinguishing qualities.

Claire Quilliot

Primo Levi Revisited

Robert Dautray

Memoirs: From the Vel d’Hiv to the H-Bomb

Maxime Schwartz, Jean Castex

The Discovery of the AIDS virus The Truth about Gallo/Montagnier affair

In Stockholm, on 10 December 2008, the King of Sweden awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine to Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier, for their discovery of the AIDS virus...