A Collège de France - CNED coproduction
Abstract
" Economic science focuses on the creation of material wealth, a field where "action is not always the sister of dreams", to quote the poet once more. It is part of a disenchantment of the world, the kind Weber spoke of, even more painful than that of the physical world, gloomy for some. And yet, at the dawn of the third millennium, not the least of the dangers lurking around our Society is that of misunderstanding its own workings. To ward it off, we need the acid eye of economic knowledge. It's an invigorating reason that feeds the healthy hope of a better understanding of the social world. "
Roger Guesnerie
