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• Title
• Copyright
• CONTENTS
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• 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
• PART I ECONOMICS AND SOCIETY
• ONE DO YOU LIKE ECONOMICS?
• What Prevents Our Understanding Economics
• The Market and Other Ways of Managing Scarcity
• How to Make Economics Better Understood
• TWO 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
• PART II THE ECONOMIST’S PROFESSION
• THREE 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
• FOUR 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
• FIVE 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
• PART III AN INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK FOR THE ECONOMY
• SIX 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
• SEVEN THE GOVERNANCE AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY OF BUSINESS
• Many Possible Organizations … but Few Are Chosen
• And What Is Business’s Social Responsibility?
• PART IV THE GREAT MACROECONOMIC CHALLENGES
• EIGHT 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
• NINE 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
• TEN 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?
• ELEVEN WHAT USE IS FINANCE?
• What Use Is Finance?
• How to Transform Useful Products into Toxic Products
• Are Markets Efficient?
• Why Regulate in Fact?
• TWELVE THE FINANCIAL CRISIS OF 2008
• The Financial Crisis
• The New Postcrisis Environment
• Who Is to Blame? Economists and the Prevention of Crises
• PART V THE INDUSTRIAL CHALLENGE
• THIRTEEN COMPETITION POLICY AND INDUSTRIAL POLICY
• What Is the Purpose of Competition?
• Where Does Industrial Policy Fit In?
• FOURTEEN 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
• FIFTEEN 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
• SIXTEEN 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 …
• SEVENTEEN 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
• EPILOGUE
• NOTES
• INDEX