Mon 12/10/2015 - 12:00 By Jean Pisani-Ferry - Most people hate finance, viewing it as the epitome of irresponsibility and greed. But, even after causing a once-in-a-century recession and unemployment for millions, finance looks indispensable for preventing an even worse catastrophe: climate change.

Tue 05/02/2019 - 12:00 On February 5 2019, France Stratégie and the OECD have organised a workshop to take stock of what we have learned collectively over the past years on crisis management and economic convergence in the euro area, and to explore how the EU could help progress in that direction, notably by using new budgetary tools.

Mon 20/03/2017 - 12:00 Eight decades ago in the depths of the Great Depression, John Maynard Keynes sparked a revolution with the idea that aggregate demand driven by households, businesses and governments all spending is what propels an economy forward. Contrary to the received wisdom at the time, he asserted that given free rein markets would not lead to full employment, especially during a downturn.