David Evans, Richard Schmalensee

The New Middlemen How Airbnb, BlaBlaCar, Uber and the rest are changing the economy

“Stimulating and rigorous, everyone — students, entrepreneurs and all those who just want to understand how our economy is evolving — should read this book.” Jean Tirole. The book masterfully articulates a strategic analysis of economic theory, making it far easier to grasp.

Pascal Lamy, Jean-Michel Baer, Nicole Gnesotto

where is the world going? Two views of the world and of globalization

Fascinating and accessible analyses to better understand today’s world and its upheavals...

Fouazia Farida Charfi

Sacred Questions A modern and re-imagined Islam

1.The two chapters on Islam explain in easy terms, accessible to all, the essentials of Islam and the reflections of the great Arab thinkers on the texts. A feminine point of view, modern and updated, on Islam: religious education, the meaning of the veil in Tunisia, observing Ramadan… A scientist and Secretary of State in 2011, Farida Faouzia Charfi is a major figure in Tunisian political life.

Jacques Barthélémy, Gilbert Cette

Working in the 21st Century The Uberization of the Economy

New labour laws for a new economy. Inevitable, but difficult to put into place, for the past year, labour-law reform has been at the heart of many key economic and political debates. Supported and co-published by two major think-tanks, Terra Nova and L’Institut de l’entreprise, this book will be heavily promoted.

Fabrice Houzé

The Invoice for Fixed Ideas

This book is the new Freakonomics. In its style as well as in its inconvenient proposals (removal of patents, replacement of the right to vote by drawing lots, taxation of meat, etc.) Michel Godet wrote the preface and lends his support for the promotion of the book.

Georges Bensoussan

The Jews of the Arab World The Forbidden Question

A book written by a historian, a recognized specialist in Jewish-Arab relations. A history book that also sheds light on current political stakes and societal issues. The discourse contradicts what is generally heard on the subject, and which provides the historical elements needed for a better understanding of the contemporary situation.

Élisabeth Badinter

Wrong Road

Xavier Fontanet

Pull Together, Everyone! We can succeed and rise again

Through his columns in Les Echos, of which he offers us an enriched and updated selection, Xavier Fontanet finds substantial resonance in the media and among economic and political circles. A fundamentally optimistic book, which considers that everyone — citizen, consumer, entrepreneur — can take control of their destiny and contribute to the collective good.

Alain Bentolila

Language Against Barbarism Teaching Our Children to Live Together

Mastering language skills is crucial to a child’s academic and social future. Children who know how to speak, read and write not only know how to think for themselves, they also know how to think with others, to accept them, and to find their own place in society.

Pascal Salin

Monetary Systems From individual needs to international realities

Currencies, and the reform of monetary systems, are a subject of growing importance on both the economic scene and the electoral one. Mistakes and misinterpretations are frequent – even among policy-makers – making this book’s instructive approach all the more helpful and necessary.

Marc Crépon

Violence Why do we consent to violence?

How philosophy allows us to understand violence and hatred, which are at the core of our world. Marc Crépon’s renown: he appeared frequently in the media over the course of the year 2015, because violence as a theme is at the heart of his philosophical thought. A year after the attack on the Bataclan, how have the major democracies reacted to hatred?

Dominique Schnapper, Paul Saloma, Perrine Simon-Nahum

Thinking about anti-Semitism A Symposium on Anti-Semitism

Commentary from the latest reports on anti-Semitism in France, in order to go well beyond journalistic and political discourse. The current character of the issue, which is examined here with the resources of both history and philosophy. The scope of the analyses proposed by some of the most respected specialists on the issue.

Jean-Michel Blanquer

The School for the Future in France

A informed contribution to the debate on education and the university in this pre-election period. Selected and finely-drawn examples from around the world illustrate how these contradictions can be overcome: Stanford and Silicon Valley, Singapore University, the Ecole Polytechnique de Lausanne nd research, ESSEC and entrepreneurship, and more.

Amartya Sen

The Land Where Boys Are Kings

A universal message taking India as a case study . A message of universality and openness that applies also to Europe in these times of nationalism and the rise of extreme politics.

Guillaume Cerutti

The Cultural Policy : A 21st Century Challenge Twenty Proposals

Though our certainties may waver as we move toward an uncertain economic and social future, culture remains for France an exceptional asset and a critical issue, both at home and internationally.

Jean-Claude Carrière

Peace

The reputation of Jean-Claude Carrière all of whose works, and in particular the most recent one, Belief, have known immense success. His writing, and his erudition, and the evocative power of his arguments make his essays into unique works.

Mario Livio

Is God a Mathematician?

A best seller, finally available in France A question that everyone has asked, even if they don't dare ask out loud… Mathematics? An aspect of culture like any other.

Jean-Michel Severino, Jérémy Hajdenberg

Afrique entreprise Africa invents its own growth model

A richly illustrated book, which intelligently combines a detailed examination of companies and business sectors with a macroeconomic approach to strengths and weaknesses of growth.

John Scheid, Alain Prochiantz

Lights, light

The 2015 Colloquium of the Collège de France unites some of the most eminent authors in physics and astrophysics, in biology, in neuroscience and the history of science. Light is a timeless subject: it has always had the power to fascinate and disturb. Here it is explained.

Daniel Sibony

Muslims and Jews in the Arabic World

Shedding an original and doubtless controversial light on the question of the relationship between Islam and the secular world.

Jean-Marc Daniel

3 Arguments in Economic Thinking Work, public debt, capital

Work, capital, time: three key notions in economics, three arguments central to economic thinking

Jean-François Amadieu

The Looks Society Beautiful, Young People...and Others

An original thesis on breaking the silence surrounding the importance of appearance, and one that nobody — employer, employee, consumers — wishes to explicitly confront.

Xavier Emmanuelli

Children of the Streets A clinic of exclusion

A fascinating analysis: from the witch-children of West and Central Africa to child-soldiers, child refugees, victims of war and catastrophe, exploited children, handicapped children, orphans who have never known human closeness, child-mothers and child-prostitutes…

Christian Saint-Étienne

Rise Again, France State of emergency

What is to be done to make France succeed again?

Karine Berger, Manuel Alduy, Caroline Le Moign

The stateless culture From Modiano to Google

A profound analysis that questions the nature of culture (neither business, nor entertainment) and what a cultural policy worthy of the name should be.

Henri Guaino

Putting an End to the Sacrifice Economy

An important work of economics, of very political economics, to feed reflection and fire debate.

Jean Guilaine, Chantal Alibert

Paul Tournal, The Inventor Of Prehistory

A clear and accessible account of the obstacles endured by the inventor of prehistory, in particular in overcoming disbelief in the existence of fossilised human remains.

Monique Dagnaud

The Californian Paradigm How the spirit of cooperation can change the world

An original reflexion on California as a new social and political model. A high-quality argument on the possibility of an alternative economy and society that is more cooperative and egalitarian.

Philippe Moati

The Sick Hyperconsumer Society

Hyperconsumption undermines social cohesion and “living together”

Armand Laferrère

Political Reading of the Bible

The Bible is not just a spiritual treasure it is also a political manual for our times.

Jacques deLarosière

50 Years of Financial Crisis french version

From Breton Woods to the Lehman Brothers collapse, the true story of 50 years of financial crisis

Jean-François Gayraud

The Art of Financial War

Finance is waging a war of encroachment against populations and states