Browsing a book by Daniel Cohen is an experience full of surprises.
We come across Almodovar, quotes from Proust, references to TV series, we see an umbrella factory and Barbie dolls passing by.
Can we place the economist, who died on August 20, 2023, at the age of 70, in a preformatted box?
His final essay,
A Brief History of the Economy
, which he gave to his publisher shortly before his death, and a text in the form of a tribute, published to celebrate his memory (
Daniel Cohen, the economist who wanted to change the world
), both at Albin Michel, provide answers.
Daniel Cohen seemed like a UFO in the stuffy world of those who think about economics.
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He saw his discipline as a social science more than anything else.
To put it another way, the former economics professor at the École Normale Supérieure on rue d'Ulm was a
“
great economics general practitioner
”
, says his brother Michel.
A sort of anti-Margaret Thatcher if we define the British stateswoman…
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