En finir avec le règne de l'illusion financière


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« Nous savons tous que notre monde s’est beaucoup endetté depuis des décennies et que sa “financiarisation” a atteint des proportions jamais atteintes auparavant, du moins en temps de paix. Mais quelle est la gravité de ce phénomène ? Quelles sont ses conséquences sur la solidité de notre système financier, sur le fonctionnement de notre économie et sur l’avenir même de notre société ? Il faut surtout comprendre comment notre monde a changé subrepticement de modèle : il a glissé, depuis deux décennies, vers un paradigme étrange, celui où l’essentiel de l’activité économique se traduit désormais par la hausse des valorisations d’actifs financiers au détriment de la croissance, des revenus salariaux et de l’investissement productif. Il est temps de mettre fin au règne de l’illusion et de remettre en valeur les ressorts économiques fondamentaux sans lesquels il ne peut y avoir de vraie croissance. » J. de L. « Personne aujourd’hui n’a l’expérience et l’acuité de Jacques de Larosière en matière de finance mondiale. Le cri d’alarme, pressant et convaincant, contenu dans cet ouvrage mérite et même exige l’attention de la communauté financière mondiale. » Lawrence Summers, ancien secrétaire au Trésor des États-Unis et président émérite de Harvard « Une lecture indispensable pour ceux qui veulent comprendre les “illusions économiques”. » Kevin Warsh, professeur à Stanford et ancien membre de la Federal Reserve (2006-2018) « Ce livre crucial est une critique sévère des contes de fées qui ont guidé l’action des banques centrales au cours des dernières décennies. » Vito Tanzi, président honoraire de l’Institut international de finances publiques Jacques de Larosière a fait toute sa carrière au sommet des institutions financières : il a d’abord dirigé le Fonds monétaire international (1978-1987), avant de devenir gouverneur de la Banque de France (1987-1993), puis président de la Banque européenne pour la reconstruction et le développement (1993-1998). Il est membre de l’Académie des sciences morales et politiques. Il est notamment l’auteur de 40 ans d’égarements économiques.




Economic Fallacies


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This book, written by the celebrated nineteenth century French economist propagating free trade, reads as it was written yesterday.




The (Mis)Behaviour of Markets


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This international bestseller, which foreshadowed a market crash, explains why it could happen again if we don't act now. Fractal geometry is the mathematics of roughness: how to reduce the outline of a jagged leaf or static in a computer connection to a few simple mathematical properties. With his fractal tools, Mandelbrot has got to the bottom of how financial markets really work. He finds they have a shifting sense of time and wild behaviour that makes them volatile, dangerous - and beautiful. In his models, the complex gyrations of the FTSE 100 and exchange rates can be reduced to straightforward formulae that yield a much more accurate description of the risks involved.




The Dialogue in Hell Between Machiavelli and Montesquieu


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Joly's (1831-78) Dialogue aux enfers entre Machiavel et Montesquieu is the major source of one of the world's most infamous and damaging forgeries, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. That, however, was concocted some two decades after he died, and American political scientist Waggoner points to Joly's own text for evidence that he was not anti-semitic and was an intransigent enemy of the kind of tyranny the forgery served during the 1930s. He translates the text and discusses Joly's intentions in writing it and his contribution to the understanding of modern politics. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.




Philosophy in a Time of Terror


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The idea for Philosophy in a Time of Terror was born hours after the attacks on 9/11 and was realized just weeks later when Giovanna Borradori sat down with Jürgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida in New York City, in separate interviews, to evaluate the significance of the most destructive terrorist act ever perpetrated. This book marks an unprecedented encounter between two of the most influential thinkers of our age as here, for the first time, Habermas and Derrida overcome their mutual antagonism and agree to appear side by side. As the two philosophers disassemble and reassemble what we think we know about terrorism, they break from the familiar social and political rhetoric increasingly polarized between good and evil. In this process, we watch two of the greatest intellects of the century at work.




Memoirs of an Egotist


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This book contains the memoirs of Stendahl or in his own words the 'chatter about his private life' between 1821 and 1830. It was between these dates that he moved to Paris and here looks back on his life as an eccentric bachelor. 'As well as Beyle the clairvoyant self-investigator, the sardonic analyst of Parisian salon society and deliberate cultivator of wit, here emerges Beyle the despairing lover, the shakespearean enthusiast, whose romantic sentiment run always parallel with his eighteenth-century logic'. Marie-Henri Beyle - better-known by his pen name, Stendhal - was born in Grenoble, France in 1783. He turned to writing after the final defeat of Napoleon in 1815, notable works include A Life of Rossini (1824), A Life of Napoleon (1929) and The Red and the Black published in 1830. A number of works were published posthumously, including Lamiel (1889), Memoirs of an Egotist (1892) and Lucien Leuwen (1894). Stendhal is now regarded as one of the earliest and foremost practitioners of literary realism.







The First Garden


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"When her long-estranged daughter disappears in Quebec, famous actress Flora Fontanges returns home from Paris and experiences a devastating confrontation with the past."




Me Before You


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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Giver of Stars and the forthcoming Someone Else's Shoes, discover the love story that captured over 20 million hearts in Me Before You, After You, and Still Me. They had nothing in common until love gave them everything to lose . . . Louisa Clark is an ordinary girl living an exceedingly ordinary life—steady boyfriend, close family—who has barely been farther afield than their tiny village. She takes a badly needed job working for ex–Master of the Universe Will Traynor, who is wheelchair bound after an accident. Will has always lived a huge life—big deals, extreme sports, worldwide travel—and now he’s pretty sure he cannot live the way he is. Will is acerbic, moody, bossy—but Lou refuses to treat him with kid gloves, and soon his happiness means more to her than she expected. When she learns that Will has shocking plans of his own, she sets out to show him that life is still worth living. A Love Story for this generation and perfect for fans of John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars, Me Before You brings to life two people who couldn’t have less in common—a heartbreakingly romantic novel that asks, What do you do when making the person you love happy also means breaking your own heart?




The Time of the City


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Engaging with critical theory, poststructuralist perspectives, cultural studies, film theory and urban studies, the book provides stunning insights into the micropolitics of ethnicity, identity, security, subjectivity and sovereignty.