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Christian Saint-Étienne
The iConomic Revolution France Faces the Third Industrial Revolution
Following the success of France: Etat d’urgence, a new polemical work on the state of the French economy, by Christian Saint-Etienne
Ivar Ekeland
The Boiling Frog Syndrome
Climate change viewed by an economist. Will Homo economicus survive climate change? A step towards new way of thinking about the economy.
Christian Saint-Étienne
Rise Again, France State of emergency
What is to be done to make France succeed again?
Michel Godet, Patrick Miliotis
Good News Territories Prize-Winning 2018
The 2018 Grand Prize honoured thirteen winners, whose beautiful, powerful and reproducible stories are told here.
Georges Ugeux
Finance Under the Magnifying Glass Twelve Reforms to Restore Trust
Most analyses of the crisis and its aftermath are the work of theoreticians and ideologues
Martin Collet
Is Taxation Confiscation?
Who should decide on the legitimacy of taxation? The Law’s reply to a social issue
Michel Godet
The Impact of 2006 Demographics, Growth, Employment
France is undergoing a major recession on all fronts, according to Michel Godet. And it is pointless to blame globalisation, European construction or technological change. The demographic watershed of 2006, when the retirement-pension system will explode, will reveal decades of wasteful mismanagement. For how, he asks, can hope remain if there are no human beings?How can sustainable development be assured within a truly participatory democracy? This iconoclastic, inflamed indictment is above all a voluntarists message of lucidity and hope. Michel Godet holds the chair of futurology at CNAM.
Christian Stoffaës
Public Services A Question of the Future
French public services need to be modernised. In their present position, they incarnate the Welfare State and its grand projects. They are now being challenged by the opening up of the market, the fall of the controlled economy, deregulation, and privatisations. An open economy now rules the network industries, such as energy, transport, telecommunications, and collective services. Can we really just leave isolated and without a future this cornerstone of our society which represents all at once the infrastructure of the competitive economy, great technical achievements, the republican conception of social equality and the cohesion of the country ? A result of the reflections of the Network Plan 2010 group, led by Christian Stoffaës, the director of the company Elecricité de France, this work identifies the currents of change, assesses the situation in other countries, and traces an outline of a significant project to reform the State. In co-edition with La Documentation française.
Samuel P. Huntington
The Clash of Civilisations
This is the book to read to understand the contemporary world and the real threats that are arising.
Michel Godet, Alain Lebaube, Philippe Ratte
Good News in France
“Once upon a time, there was a marvellous country called France, famed for its geographic and geologic variety as well as for its rich heritage and the diversity of its cultural traditions...
The Shift Project
Crisis, Climate How to Transform the French Economy
The Shift Project, a think tank created by Jean-Marc Jancovici in 2010, aims to clarify and influence the debate on energy transition.
Luc Ferry
Facing the Crisis Building Blocks for a Politics of Civilisation
To overcome the crisis we will have to do more than salvage what we can by further expenditures, no matter how necessary or urgent these may seem.
Christian Saint-Étienne
Europe’s Wild Card The Real Solution to Exit the Economic Crisis
Christian Saint-Etienne argues that the European project was built on a fallacious concept from the start. The premises were false and Europe has become the world’s “soft underbelly”.
Pascal Picq
Who will take power? Great apes, Politicians or Robots
Like Yuval Noah Harari’s Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind… with a dash of humour and a knowledge of prehistory too! Transhumanism, which is at the core of this book, is the subject of the moment.
Jean Jouzel, Pierre Larrouturou
To avoid climate and financial chaos
America First! Donald Trump decided to pull the United States out of the Paris Agreement. Europa First! We want Europe to be the first to prove “grandeur nature,” to show that not only is safeguarding the climate not an obstacle to social well-being, but that the struggle against climate deregulation is a powerful means to fight against unemployment and insecurity.
Pascal Lamy, Nicole Gnesotto
where is the world going? Trump with Us
Fascinating and accessible analyses to better understand today’s world and its upheavals...
Jacques Delors, Michel Dollé
Investing in Social Issues
Jacques Delors offers a new vision of the welfare state, adapted to the challenges and difficulties of the present...
Pascal Lamy
when France will wake
A new view of France by Pascal Lamy, former director-general of the World Trade Organisation and an expert on international trade issues
