30 economists and one conviction : the need for an open debate
Between China and France : Multi-colored roads
Like a prism deflecting a bearm of white jight into multiple colored rays and wavelengths, this essay commissioned to Jean-Paul Betbeze by the Fondation Prospective et Innovation examines the chances presented to and by France as China rises into the 21th Century. Combining buoyant prose and...
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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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The Factory-Free Economy
The Factory-Free Economy Outsourcing, Servitization, and the Future of Industry Lionel Fontagné & Ann Harrison Oxford De-industrialization, accelerated by the financial crisis, is a long term process. The comparative advantage of emerging economies shifted towards more...
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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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Rencontres Économiques d’Aix-en-Provence 2015
For three days, 220 people from 30 different countries and a wide diversity of backgrounds have talked about employment as a source of wealth and opportunity. On Friday, the general framework of the three-day meeting was established. On Saturday, a number of specific, employment-related...
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Economic Rendez-vous of the Mediterranean 2014
“What contribution the Social and Solidarity Economy can it provide to the development in the Mediterranean ?” Organization: The tenth conference of RV Med, organized by the Institute of the Mediterranean/Femise & the Cercle des économistes will be held in Marseilles at the Villa...
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Rencontres Économiques d’Aix-en-Provence 2014
After a long period of economic development and expansion, the world is at a turning point in its history. The 14th annual conference of “Les Rencontres économiques d’Aix-en-Provence” had the ambition to imagine and discuss about the new global dynamic process of investment. Over the...
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Economic Rendez-vous of the Mediterranean 2013
“For a Mediterranean of Creativity and Innovation: an ambition for the Youth” The 9th Economic Rendezvous of the Mediterranean were held at the Villa Méditerranée in Marseille on Saturday, November 9th, 2013 concluding the Mediterranean Economic Week in the presence of a large audience and...
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Rencontres Économiques d’Aix-en-Provence 2013
The World Economy, between Emergencies and the Long Term The world economy has a past, a present, and a future. But it is also made up of a myriad of different approaches to time. Countries, cultures, sectors of activity conform to their own different notion of time; the pace of finance is...
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