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The Great Transformation
À propos de Alain Touraine Alain Touraine, célèbre sociologue des mouvements sociaux, donne une réponse de sociologue à la question "comment sortir de la crise". Il diagnostique la mort de l'action sociale, et explore les deux possibilités qui s'offrent à nous pour sortir de l'impasse.
Sortir de la crise, réponse de sociologue | Les Ernest
VINCE Cable, Britain's business secretary, is getting it in the neck. In a speech to the Liberal Democrat conference today, he said that Markets are often irrational or rigged.
Politics, regulation, financial markets and inequality: Marxism? Give me a break | The Economist
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism | Naomi Klei
In THE SHOCK DOCTRINE , Naomi Klein explodes the myth that the global free market triumphed democratically. Exposing the thinking, the money trail and the puppet strings behind the world-changing crises and wars of the last four decades, The Shock Doctrine is the gripping story of how America’s “free market” policies have come to dominate the world-- through the exploitation of disaster-shocked people and countries. At the most chaotic juncture in Iraq’s civil war, a new law is unveiled that would allow Shell and BP to claim the country’s vast oil reserves…. Immediately following September 11, the Bush Administration quietly out-sources the running of the “War on Terror” to Halliburton and Blackwater…. After a tsunami wipes out the coasts of Southeast Asia, the pristine beaches are auctioned off to tourist resorts....
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Entretien : Matthieu Ricard, Daniel Cohen - En Kiosque - Lefigar
Quelle place y a-t-il pour l’altruisme dans l’économie moderne ? Deux auteurs à succès, le philosophe et moine bouddhiste Matthieu Ricard et l’économiste Daniel Cohen, confrontent leurs visions, à quelques jours de la conférence internationale de Copenhague sur le climat (du 7 au 18 décembre). Madame Figaro. – Vous pointez tous les deux l’urgence de réagir face à un modèle qui craque de toutes parts. Mais votre inquiétude, Daniel Cohen, s’oppose à la confiance inébranlable en l’homme de Matthieu Ricard… Daniel Cohen. – Nous vivons une situation inédite.What value do we create here? | A State Space Traveler
One summer I thought I had the ultimate dream job. During the day I created software that accessed some of the world’s largest financial databases and provided traders with real-time data and analysis for trade ideas. At night I worked with the CTO on a side project that analyzed huge amounts of transaction data to identify arbitrage opportunities.