Pierre-Noël Giraud, né en 1949, polytechnicien, ingénieur des Mines, est professeur d’économie à Mines ParisTech ainsi qu’à l’université Paris Dauphine, PSL – Research University. Il a publié notamment : L'Inégalité du monde (Gallimard, 1996), Le Commerce des promesses (Seuil, 2001 et 2009), La Mondialisation. Émergences et fragmentations (Sciences Humaines, 2012) Économie des matières premières, avec Timothée Ollivier, La Découverte « Repères » 2015) et L'Homme inutile (Odile Jacob, 2015).
What are the controversial issues and questions today in regards to the political economy of natural resources and raw materials ? This book, as historical as it is economic, suggests prioritizing the sustainable development issues that concern them and analyzing their role in economic development and the reduction of poverty.
Pierre-Noël Giraud holds a degree from an école polytechnique and is a mining engineer. He is an economics professor at Mines ParisTech, where he is Chair of the Économie, finance et gestion des commodités department, and at Dauphine PSL, Research University, in the department of Finance et développement durable.
Timothée Ollivier, a former student at the École normale supérieure de Lyon with a doctorate in economics from Mines ParisTech, is an engineering economist at an industrial group in the energy sector.