La crise des années 1970 et ses conséquences

Nombre de juristes et de commentateurs critiquent régulièrement les lois prises sous le coup de l’émotion suscitée par le retentissement médiatique de certaines affaires criminelles. Ils les caricaturent parfois par cette expression « un fait divers = une loi » et considèrent qu’ ...  Show more

Aujourd’hui, nous vous proposons un épisode consacré à un sujet stratégique au cœur de l’actualité internationale. Puissance navale, projection de force, dissuasion nucléaire : la France dispose d’un outil militaire unique en Europe. Mais que représente réellement la marine natio ...  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