For a positive economy

Source: Jacques Attali / Fayard

Publisher: Fayard

Language: French

Publication date: 25 September 2013

Number of pages in the printed edition: 264 pages

How can we find a way out of the systemic crisis we are going through? By moving to a new model: the positive economy. An economy where the wealth created is not an end in itself, but a means to serve higher, altruistic values. An economy that serves future generations and promotes responsible, sustainable and inclusive growth. An economy that respects the environment, and that will, last but not least, serve society.

How can this change be implemented in a concrete way? By bringing together intellectuals, trade unions, public actors, companies and NGOs, students and experts in economic thought or public action. Since the holding of the first Estates General of the positive economy in Le Havre in September 2012, Jacques Attali has brought together talents from all over the world and is leading a think tank around this ambition. Here are the fruits of these exchanges: a luminous and synthetic picture of the world as it is and as it could become, as well as a series of shock proposals, intended to make the positive economy happen.