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Crise financière

pourquoi les gouvernements ne font rien

Un vieux routier de la Finance, actuellement régulateur des marchés financiers, sort de sa réserve. Dans le premier chapitre, l'auteur explique pourquoi et s'engage pour dire la vérité aux citoyens. Il met en évidence l'effacement délibéré des politiques devant les puissances de ...

La richesse cachée des nations

enquête sur les paradis fiscaux

La mondialisation financière a démultiplié les possibilités d’évasion fiscale pour les plus fortunés. Les principes essentiels de justice fiscale et le bon fonctionnement de la finance internationale sont sapés par une poignée de territoires voyous qui rongent la souveraineté des États nations. Sur la ...

Le capital au XXIe siècle

La répartition des richesses est l'une des questions les plus vives et les plus débattues aujourd'hui. Mais que sait-on vraiment de son évolution sur le long terme ? La dynamique de l'accumulation du capital engendre-t-elle inévitablement sa concentration toujours plus forte entre quelques ...

Le nouveau gouvernement du monde

idéologie, structures, contre-pouvoirs

Alors que la crise de 2007-2009 a révélé à tous les méfaits de la mondialisation et de la spéculation financière, rien ne change, malgré les dénonciations qui se multiplient de tous bords. Pour comprendre les racines de cette dangereuse inertie des décideurs économiques et politiques ...

Les expérimentations aléatoires en économie

Depuis le début des années 2000, une économiste française, Esther Duflo, professeure au MIT, occupe le devant de la scène en économie du développement et, plus généralement, en évaluation des politiques publiques. Avec son laboratoire, le J-PAL, elle a contribué à populariser une méthode les ...

La fin des sociétés

Nous sommes, depuis une décennie, confrontés à cette évidence : toutes les institutions sociales s'affaiblissent, et certaines d'entre elles menacent même de s'effondrer. La famille, l'école, la ville, le système de protection et de contrôle social, l'entreprise, la politique elle-même offrent ...

The Warren Buffett way

Warren Buffett is the most famous investor of all time and one of today's most admired business leaders. He became a billionaire and investment sage by looking at companies as businesses rather than prices on a stock screen. The first two editions of The ...

Global pension crisis

unfunded liabilities and how we can fill the gap

This is a comprehensive look at the crisis of unfunded pension liabilities and what must be done to avoid the same problem in the future. As the generational bubble of the Baby Boomers begins to retire, it is increasingly evident that governments, corporations, and individuals ...

Accountability in the contemporary constitution

Accountability is regarded as a central feature of modern constitutionalism. At a general level, this prominence is perhaps unsurprising, given the long history of the idea. However, in many constitutional democracies, including the UK and the USA, it has acquired a particular resonance in contemporary ...

Fraud analytics

strategies and methods for detection and prevention

Proven guidance for expertly using analytics in fraud examinations, financial analysis,auditing and fraud prevention Fraud Analytics thoroughly reveals the elements of analysis that are used in today'sfraudexaminations, fraud investigations, and financial crime investigations. This valuable resourcereviews the types of analysis that should be ...

Reconstructing restorative justice philosophy

This book takes bold steps in forming much-needed philosophical foundations for restorative justice through deconstructing and reconstructing various models of thinking. It challenges current debates through the consideration and integration of various disciplines such as law, criminology, philosophy and human rights into restorative justice theory ...

Free and open source software

policy, Law and practice

Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) is realised through legal instruments, private law agreements, licences, promises, and community norms. These private law instruments reside within a public law framework that grants exclusive and monopoly rights to creators of intellectual property. Written by FOSS experts, this ...

Principles of marketing

For Principles of Marketing courses using a comprehensive text. Learn how to create value and gain loyal customers. Today's marketing challenge is to create vibrant, interactive communities of consumers who make products and brands a part of their daily lives. To help students understand ...

Demanding the impossible

Where are we today and what is to be done? Slavoj i ek ponders these questions in this unique and timely book. Based on live interviews, the book captures i ek at his irrepressible best, elucidating such topics as the uprisings of the Arab Spring ...

Blood, sweat, and toil

remaking the british working class, 1939-1945

Blood, Sweat, and Toil is the first scholarly history of the British working class in the Second World War. It integrates social, political, and labour history, and reflects the most recent scholarship and debates on social class, gender, and the forging of identities. Geoffrey Field ...

Sovereign wealth funds

the new intersection of money and politics

Sovereign wealth funds are a growing and dynamic force in international finance. The shifting international economic relations from capital rich states gives them new power in influencing the global agenda. Despite controlling trillions of dollars in the biggest companies in the world, little is known ...