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Xavier Fontanet
headed the Essilor group, a world leader in the optical market, from 1990 to 2013.
Today a columnist and professor affiliated with HEC, where he teaches strategy, he published, in 2021, “Conquer the world with his team” (Manitoba Editions).
The underlying reasons for the "yellow vests" crisis, which arrived more than three years ago, are still the subject of debate.
The same phenomenon occurred in England with the vote against Europe and in the United States with the emergence of Trump.
It is therefore an absolutely fundamental subject which affects democracies.
Many remarkable works, in particular those of Christophe Guilluy and Jérôme Fourquet, have perfectly described these social and territorial fractures, the cause of which is often attributed to the centralization of the country and to the so-called regional planning policy.
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The Tyranny of Merit
, the work of American philosopher Michael Sandel, also sheds an interesting light on this phenomenon.
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