La crise des années 1970 et ses conséquences

Un sujet donné à l’occasion de grands oraux de l’ENM et du CRFPA l’année dernière. La vie privée est une notion évolutive, que l’on croit connaitre et pourtant incertaine à bien des égards. Traditionnellement, la vie privée visait l’intime, un espace que l’on partageait avec parc ...  Show more

En février 2026, la question des terres rares est revenue au cœur des tensions géopolitiques mondiales. Le Premier ministre chinois Li Qiang a visité des sites stratégiques d’extraction et a souligné l’importance croissante de ces minerais pour l’industrie, la transition énergéti ...  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