Trained economist, entrepreneur, polemicist, essayist, columnist ... Nicolas Bouzou has a nice collection of caps! The one who published a few months ago the book "Wisdom and madness of the coming world" (at XO Éditions) with his friend Luc Ferry is very optimistic about the future, while it is the scenarios that dominate are those of "Collapse" and "catastrophism." "On the contrary, I think that the extraordinary knowledge that we have accumulated and the technological power are opening up exciting horizons," explains Nicolas Bouzou. I also think that the new frontiers of the 21st century are space and the brain. ” Just that.
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Initially, Nicolas Bouzou's specialty as an economist was monetary macroeconomics and monetary cycles. A "base" which allows him to satiate his curiosity to understand the world. Which student was he in college? "In the third, for example, I was 14 on average, I was a little bored, I was trying to put myself next to the pretty girls to chat," recalls Nicolas Bouzou. But I couldn't be too clever: my mother was a teacher in the college in which I was! ”