A good and a (very) bad news came out within a few days. The International Energy Agency revealed that in 2014 the total amount of CO2 emissions resulting from energy use (excluding therefore Road Transport) remained stable. This is unexpected for this amount remained stable despite the economic recovery. Usually, it remains stable when there is a decline or a stagnation of economic activity.

At the same time, Paris went through an episode of fine particles (PM10) and knew an extremely serious pollution episode that made Paris one of the largest and most polluted capitals in the world. This is ...

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Many good figures have been published over the past two weeks:  good figures on employment, showing notably that the number of employees in the 4th quarter is stable and that the balance of payments is close to equilibrium in January; good figures on consumption, budget and industrial production.  Does it mean that, finally, after two years of stagnation, the French economy has started off on the right foot? "The recovery is here," said the President of the Republic. Is this really the case?

French exports reached a record level with an average of 37.2 billion over the last three ...

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Qu’est-ce qui peut bien rapprocher ces trois hommes qui évoluaient des univers si différents, l’économie, la littérature ou le marché de l’art ? Le fait d’avoir eu raison avant, et contre tout le monde, sur des sujets essentiels.

Keynes, avant de devenir l’économiste le plus influent du XXème siècle, a débuté sa carrière comme fonctionnaire. A ce titre, il participe en 1919 à la conférence de Paris qui négocie le futur traité de Versailles. En opposition avec la ligne défendue par le Chancelier de l’Echiquier et par ...

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