Reconstruire sur les ruines du capitalisme. S’émanciper par le partage et la coopération, de George Monbiot – Editions Actes Sud / Collection Domaine du possible – A paraître le 24 février 2021 « Le livre que vous tenez entre les mains a pour objectif de porter un message d’espoir et de
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L’Article 1 du Décret du 1er septembre 2020 instituant un haut-commissaire au plan parle clairement d’une : « réflexion prospective » et notamment « au regard des enjeux […] culturels ». Mais son premier défi à relever ne serait-il pas celui d’une réhabilitation de l’utopie ? Sans forcément adhérer sans
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Réinventer, refonder : on semble n’avoir dans les hautes sphères que cela à la bouche. Et tant mieux. C’est le reflet d’une prise de conscience des impasses dans lesquelles nous nous trouvons avec notre conception de l’économie, de la gouvernance, du droit, des relations entre les sociétés, prise de conscience
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Peuple, pouvoir & profits – Le capitalisme à l’heure de l’exaspération sociale, de Joseph E. Stiglitz – Edition Les Liens qui Libèrent (LLL), 2020 – 416 Pages Voici le grand réquisitoire du prix Nobel d’économie Joseph E. Stiglitz contre la dialectique infernale du pouvoir et des profits, dont UP’ Magazine
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After the collective shock of the coronavirus epidemic, nothing can be the same anymore. The living reality imposes itself on us. Planetary and ecological logics force us to review our ways of innovating, exchanging and investing. We must reconsider our projects. So, can this health crisis we have just gone through change the way we live?
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The need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is ever more pressing. Various forms of action are available to Governments to achieve this goal. The economic instrument is one of them and taxation is one of its modalities. With the collapse in the price of a barrel of oil, which is likely to become
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Les esclaves de l'anthropocène - Petrodollar, intérêts financiers, manipulation de masse, by Nicolas Teterel - Editions Yves Michel, 3 June 2020 - 324 Pages Nicolas Teterel defends the thesis that our system of monetary creation through interest-bearing debt obliges us mathematically to generate new debts more
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Renewable energy could fuel a post-VID-19 economic recovery by boosting global GDP by nearly US$100 trillion ('92.5 trillion) by 2050, according to an official report by the International Renewable Energy Agency, which states that accelerating investment in
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In order to support businesses in the face of the crisis caused by the coronavirus epidemic, the French government has announced a number of measures. Innovative companies believe that the measures are a step in the right direction but that the recovery will have to be thought through over the long term, according to a study by the Committee.
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The scale and speed of the Covid 19 disaster must force us to rethink our societies. As after every disruptive event, our social fundamentals, our value systems and our production methods are being profoundly questioned. Today, this health crisis must
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While questions remain unanswered about the coronavirus, its nature, dynamics, capacity to spread and even mutate, more is known about the characteristics of the populations first affected. The latest studies confirm that the elderly and vulnerable provide the largest numbers of people
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Une monnaie écologique pour sauver la planète, by Alain Grandjean and Nicolas Dufrêne - Preface by Nicolas Hulot - Editions Odile Jacob, 26 February 2020 - 280 Pages The climate emergency is facing a formidable financing problem. No conventional financial strategy is capable of rapidly mobilising the considerable sums of money that are needed to meet the challenge.
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The Société d'encouragement pour l'Industrie Nationale and Synopia are organising a round table on Thursday 17 October 2019, from 7 pm to 9 pm, on the theme "Lobbying: a good or an evil for Europe, its democracy and its economy? The decisions taken in Brussels are sometimes perceived as the "best or worst" for Europe.
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Growth (implied GDP) is the barometer of our societies. But this indicator is being questioned by a growing number of people who are becoming aware of the crisis and the ecological risk. Many of them evoke, without going further in the analysis, that "infinite growth in an
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Foodwatch alert: The Foreign Affairs Committee rolls out the red carpet for the AACC, two days before its vote in the National Assembly on July 17 to ratify the Europe-Canada trade agreement. The headlong rush for free trade agreements continues at full speed, just a few days after the announcement of the agreement.
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On 14 June in Paris, Citéco is opening Europe's first interactive museum dedicated to the economy. In the heart of the Gaillard Hotel, a masterpiece of neo-Renaissance architecture and former branch of the Banque de France, Citéco is deploying a permanent exhibition covering more than 2,400 m2 offering a fun and educational access to the concepts,
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The European Union is increasing the number of bilateral free trade agreements, in all opacity. This is the analysis and point of view of the foodwatch association, which defends the rights of consumer citizens to greater transparency in the food sector and access to healthy food. A few days before the European elections, the organisation
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At the opening of the Grand Messe de l'innovation, Viva Technology, the press relations agency RB & associés, devoted the new workshop-debate organized at the 17th arrondissement town hall to the innovative potential of our companies on 14 May. In an environment that is becoming more and more
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Capgemini, the École Polytechnique, and the École Polytechnique Foundation are launching a Chair dedicated to the technological and economic implications of the blockchain in order to promote higher education and research in this emerging field. Jérôme Siméon, President of Capgemini France, and François Bouchet, Chief Executive Officer of the École polytechnique, inaugurated the Chair.
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The year 2029 is off to a flying start and is the occasion for the traditional balance sheets. Last year, Apple celebrated the 20th anniversary of the iPhone (which has little in common with the one the older among us have known), entomovorous restaurants have flourished in the streets of Paris.
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