Jacques deLarosière

Ending the Financial Illusion In Defense of Real Growth

The belief that creating money is the same thing as creating resources is the worst possible illusion, as demonstrated in this lucid, succinct and incisive essay.

Henri Lepage, Patrick Wajsman

Twenty Economists Confront the Crisis

Hippolyte D'Albis, Françoise Benhamou

Economists respond to populists

In the arena where populists are rampant, the economic question is at the heart of the denunciation of the elites and 'their' policy...

André Gauron

Ramparts Against the Rule of Money

Christian Saint-Étienne

France : emergency A strategy for tomorrow

The Real Solution to Exit the Economic Crisis

Raymond Boudon

Why intellectual peoples don't like liberalism

Given the intellectual force of liberalism, its political appeal, its economic effectiveness and its historical significance, why is it so unpopular among French intellectuals? Why does it elicit so little serious discussion? And why is it the object of so much confusion, so many clichés and misunderstandings? Is it simply out of resentment, because intellectuals feel that the market does not afford them the material and symbolic rewards that they believe they deserve? Is it just because they prefer to play a critical role in a society where capitalism is triumphant? Perhaps, but these reasons do not explain everything — and they certainly don’t explain the systematic rejection of liberal thought in France. A sociologist of knowledge rather than of social determinism, and a specialist in belief systems, Raymond Boudon ruthlessly analyses the cognitive mechanisms that make liberalism so hateful in the eyes of French intellectuals. The result is a keen, detailed review of the clichés that have encumbered discussions for more than thirty years. Raymond Boudon, a professor at the University of Paris-IV, is a member of the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques. He us the author of numerous works, most notably L’Inégalité des chances, La logique du social, L’Idéologie ou l’origine des idées reçues, L’Art de se persuader, Le Sens des valeurs and Déclin de la morale? Déclin des valeurs. He is the co-author, with R. Leroux, of Y a-t-il encore une sociologie?

Observatoire des cadres

What Use Is Management? Questioning management tactics

What is management’s future role in a rapidly changing business world?

Claire Brisset

Children and the Law of the Jungle