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Françoise Zonabend
The Nuclear Peninsula Three Mile Island, Tchernobyl, Fukushima... and after?
Twenty-five years after her first investigation, the author returns to the French nuclear site at La Hague — and finds it more dangerous than ever

Sophie Boisseau du Rocher, Emmanuel Dubois de Prisque
China Is/and the World A Look at Sino-globalization
By stressing the gap between today’s international system and what it would be in the event of Chinese hegemony, we will understand better what is at play, and what is lost, with the “de-Westernization” of the world.

Gilles Dufrénot, Anne Levasseur-Franceschi
Pandemics and Globalization Dangerous Liaisons?
A global approach to the interactions between economic and health phenomena favoring the notion of the public good over a conquest of markets

David Spector
History of the Market Concept in France
An original point of view which runs counter to received ideas: the concept of the market is in a blind spot of leftist thinking, or even that of the French intellectual tradition. This book should be part of the debate as it provides historical insight on a crucial point of current disunity within the left and on its future.

Nicolas Colin
A Social Contract for an Entrepreneurial Age Our Happy Days
Trained at the École Normale d’Administration and active in the digital world where he is a well-known figure, Nicolas Colin has an atypical profile, very popular among the media.

Ivar Ekeland, Jean-Charles Rochet
We Must Tax Financial Speculation Against widespread speculation – a universal tax
Financial speculation goes back to ancient times. Its history sheds light on many aspects of the current situation.

Georges Ugeux
The Missteps of Finance
Using plain language, a serious warning about the threats looming over the financial sphere. Georges Ugeux is a colorful figure in finance, and a free thinker.
