La crise des années 1970 et ses conséquences

Le terme même d’addiction est relativement moderne. C’est un vocabulaire usité en médecine au XXème siècle, plus sûrement d’ailleurs en France dans la seconde moitié de ce siècle. Cela lui donne naturellement une connotation médicale, se dessine l’idée de pathologie, mais aussi l ...  Show more

Bienvenue dans ce nouveau podcast consacré à un phénomène majeur du paysage sécuritaire français : la montée en puissance des polices municipales. Leur rôle s’est profondément transformé en vingt ans : plus nombreuses, mieux équipées, plus visibles, elles occupent désormais une p ...  Show more

At the time of the 2008 global credit crunch, I participated in Oxford's online debate on whether the economic crisis sounded the death knell for laissez faire capitalism. I argued it did, not because I was naive enough to think that laissez faire policies would be abandoned, but ...  Show more

In most decades, there are dramatic events that interrupt the course of history and the last twenty years have seen at least three obvious examples of this.  However, more often than not, it is the reaction, in public attitudes and policy, rather than the event itself, that sh ...

Christina Romer was a top White House economist during the Great Recession. As a researcher, she specializes in the Great Depression. She tells us what those disasters can (and can’t) teach us about the Covid crash.

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For more than a quarter century, economist and Harvard Kennedy School professor Dani Rodrik has been ringing alarm bells about the dangers of globalization. And for a long time, it didn’t seem like a whole lot of people were listening. Now as record economic inequality, a climate ...  Show more