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Progress or Freedom
Technological dominance is shifting the balance of global economic stability. This is the central premise behind the latest book from Lorenzi and Berrebi who view the rise of artificial intelligence, robotics, use of private data, and genetic transformation, among other developments, culminating in...
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Five urgent challenges for Le Cercle des économistes : Final declaration REAix2018
Over the past few months, the troubled atmosphere in the world has often been analyzed in too simple a way. As history has often proven, what seems to be permanent is just a short phase in our trajectory. Whether in terms of technology, migration, environment, identity or geostrategy, the world...
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12 proposals for a social compact of progress : Final Declaration REAix2017
12 PROPOSALS FOR A SOCIAL COMPACT OF PROGRESS The challenges raised by the Rencontres Economiques d’Aix 2017 are strikingly urgent. Technological change and globalization have brought about unprecedented wealth, but with its long ignored suffering: democracies in jeopardy, unequal access to...
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A Violent World
During the 1990s Francis Fukuyama announced the end of history. The 2000s showed how it is an illusion to imagine a peaceful world without conflict. In this book, the authors explore how six major constraints are set to fix the trajectory of the global economy. Three of them are new: the...
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The New Global Financial Regulation
This article was written by Laura Tyson, S.K. and Angela Chan, Haas School of Business,University of California at Berkeley, at the occasion of Les Rencontres Economiques d'Aix-en-Provence 2009 “Growth, Demography, Finance: from Major Economic Breakdowns to New Balances". Read the full...
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