Economics for the common good

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Introduction: Whatever happened to the common good? :

Itinerary

The relationship between society and economics

The economist's profession

Institutions

A window on our world

The common thread

Economics and Society. Do you like economics? : What prevents our understanding economics ; The market and other ways of managing scarcity ; How to make economics better understood

The moral limits of the market : The moral limits of the market or market failure? ; The noncommercial and the sacred

The market, a threat to social cohesion? ; Inequality

The Economist's Profession. The economist in civil society : The economist as public intellectual ; The pitfalls of involvement in society ; A few safeguards for an essential relationship ; From theory to economic policy

The everyday life of a researcher : The interplay between theory and empirical evidence ; The microcosm of academic economics ; Economists : foxes or hedgehogs? ; The role of mathematics ; Game theory and information theory ; An economist at work : methodological contributions

Economics on the move : An agent who is not always rational : Homo psychologicus ; Homo socialis ; Homo incitatus : the counterproductive effects of rewards ; Homo juridicus : law and social norms ; More unexpected lines of inquiry

An Institutional Framework for the Economy. Toward a modern state : The market has many defects that must be corrected ; The complementarity between the market and the state and the foundations of liberalism ; Politicians or technocrats? ; Reforming the state : the example of France

The governance and social responsibility of business : Many possible organizations, but few are chosen ; And what is business's social responsibility?

The Great Macroeconomic Challenges. The climate challenge : What is at stake in climate change? ; Reasons for the standstill ; Negotiations that fall short of the stakes involved ; Making everyone accountable for GHG emissions ; Inequality and the pricing of carbon ; The credibility of an international agreement ; In conclusion : putting negotiations back on track

Labor market challenges : The labor market in France ; An economic analysis of labor contracts ; Perverse institutional incentives ; What can reform achieve and how can it be implemented successfully? ; The other great debates about employment ; The urgency

Europe at the crossroads : The European project : from hope to doubt ; The origins of the Euro crisis ; Greece : much bitterness on both sides ; What options do the EU and the Eurozone have today?

What use is finance? : What use is finance? ; How to transform useful products into toxic products ; Are markets efficient? ; Why regulate in fact?

The financial crisis of 2008 : The financial crisis ; The new postcrisis environment ; Who is to blame? : economists and the prevention of crises

The Industrial Challenge. Competition policy and industrial policy : What is the purpose of competition? ; Where does industrial policy fit in?

How digitization is changing everything : Platforms : guardians of the digital economy ; Two-sided markets ; A different business model : platforms as regulators ; The challenges two-sided markets pose for competition policy

Digital economies : the challenges for society : Trust ; Who owns data? ; Health care and risk ; The new forms of employment in the twenty-first century ; The digital economy and employment ; The tax system

Innovation and intellectual property : The imperative of innovation ; Intellectual property ; Managing royalty stacking ; The institutions of innovation ; Cooperative development and open source software ; And many other debates

Sector regulation : What's at stake ; A fourfold reform and its rationale ; Incentive regulation ; Prices of regulated companies ; Regulation of access to the network ; Competition and universal service