Coming back to the origins of mankind, Hervé Kempf retraces the great divergence between continents observed with the development of capitalism, and the great convergence at work since a few years. But we have to take into account that we now facing a "green wall", due to the finiteness of raw...

Societies in the most advanced countries are characterized by a pathological relation to consumption involving many imbalances. Consumerism results from governments deliberate approach to make it a major tool for growth. The world economic and ecological crises force us to rethink this model. Can...

The moment of crisis is both painful and fertile. In this second semester of 2009, because it is a neologism in vogue, the term “ deconsumption” seemingly has a role to play in the definition of a new equilibrium for the future. The report entitled “Deconsumption in France on the horizon of...

Economic development can not continue if the economic thinking is not deeply redesigned. It must give up its classical mecanism and become more transdisciplinary, in particular by taking into account the principles of thermodynamics which link techno-economic development, biologic evolution, global...

At a time when carbon market is strongly criticized, the Livelihoods Fund is an original initiative – created in 2011 by Danone and three other companies, that uses carbon offsetting mechanisms as a powerful and innovative tool to create sustainable economic, social and environmental value...