2019-04-01 - Finance & Gestion
Today, the concept of globalization covers every domain and has been studied and commented upon so much that it seems impossible to present a new view of it. Nevertheless, François Fourquet wished to take up the challenge.
When we look at the world from the point of view that it is something other than a simple conglomeration of nations, we see the history of globalization in a different light. Borrowing from Braudel, or again from Mauss, François Fourquet presents an original essay which invites us to think about globalization in the long term.
François Fourquet (1940-2016) was an economist and co-director of LED (Laboratoire d’économie dionysien) and taught at the Université Paris-8 from 1994 to 2009. He was the author of several important works in his discipline including, Les Comptes de la puissance. Histoire de la comptabilité nationale et du Plan (The accounts of power. A history of national accounting and the Plan) (Recherches, 1980) and Richesse et puissance. Une généalogie de la valeur, xvie-xviiie siècle (Riches and power. A genealogy of value, 16th – 18th centuries) (La Découverte, 2002).