Violent World

Jean-Hervé Lorenzi is Professor of Economics at Paris-Dauphine University and President of the Circle of Economists. Mickaël Berrebi is an actuary graduated from the Ecole supérieure des sciences économiques et commerciales (ESSEC) in Paris.

• ContentsIntroductionChapter 1The Great Breakdown in Technical ProgressInnovation, a Phenomenon of DisruptionThe Major Role of Technical Progress in Growth in the la croissanceSlowdown: the Great DebateIncreasingly Rarer ResourcesThe Intelligence WarChapter 2The Curse of AgeingThe Weight of Demography in HistoryThe Three Impacts of AgeingAn Evil for a Good?Towards Intergenerational ConflictChapter 3The Irresistible Explosion of Inequalities inégalitésInequalities and Growth: Return of an Old ControversyThe End of the Equality Myth égalitaireThe inheritance society versus the Middle ClassesInequalities at the Heart of a New ConflictChapter 4The Shock of Deindustrialisation 1995-2005: deindustrialisation and outsourcingThe London temptationHope from AmericaThe terrible uncertainty of globalisationChapter5The Illusion of FinancializationThe Explosion in LiquidityThe Dismemberment of the Financial SystemThe Utopia of RegulationThe Impossible Debt EquationFinance versus the Real EconomyChapter 6Savings, the Ultimate in Rare ResourcesThe Enigma of the Balance between Savings and InvestmentThree Decades of a Surplus of SavingsThe World is Changing, Savings decreaseThe World is Changing, Investment incincreasesTowards a Major ImbalanceChapter 7Avoiding a Major Crisis in the 21st CenturyRefocusing the World on Youth Socialising Rare ResourcesTaming AnnuitiesConsidering a new Bretton WoodsRisk-sharingIndex