What connection is there between a contemporary French environmental activist and a great Italian novel written seventy years ago? In *The Baron in the Trees*, Italian novelist Italo Calvino tells the story of Cosimo Piovasco di Rondò, a twelve-year-old aristocrat…
There is a temptation as old as nations themselves: that of owing nothing to anyone, of closing one’s borders to create a self-sufficient territory, sheltered from shifting alliances and supplier blackmail. This temptation has resurfaced with a vengeance since the…
On the threshold of great mutations, there are always prophets of collapse. They announce the end of work, the end of history, the end of ideologies, the end of growth, the end of man. Today, more prosaically, they are announcing…
Over the past few months, we have all come to understand the importance of not depending on a single source for agricultural products, energy, raw materials, components and weapons. And many other things besides. In the United States, Europe and…
For a very long time, and still today, the financial markets have been suspended on the decisions of the central bankers, expecting them to validate or contradict their forecasts of inflation and interest rates. To believe that these rates will…
Listen to this article : It is believed that when a truth is acquired, by the play of science or simple logic, it is acquired for all and for all time, and that we will be able to build, for…
Listen this article : Yes, I know, I am often accused of only seeing what is wrong, of only predicting the worst. Nothing could be further from the truth: I spend a lot of time, here and elsewhere, detecting…
The world is certainly going badly. And it will get worse for a long time to come. The pandemic is ahead of us for at least another year; the number of victims will continue to rise sharply, all over the…
Jacques Attali était l’invité de WiSEED mardi 15 décembre 2020 pour aborder le thème “société positive et économie de la vie.”
