Doubts and certainty

Daniel Cohen is part of this déconomistes category which no longer for the right reasons. Indeed, he proved at length that he had a real douvrages talented popularizer and researcher. In this album, he sattaque happiness in seven games.
1. Gross domestic happiness
2. The work, a vanishing value
3. The decline of empire
4. The shift of the world
5. The great crisis occident
6. Darwin's Nightmare
7. The Postmodern Condition

On the form, this is impeccable, the style is simple, the text is searched and full of references to go further.

On the merits, Cohen manages to translate with some accuracy deadlock before which the man, society and their economic model are. Its central idea is that the pursuit of happiness by the accumulation of material goods is an anthropological aberration. Although a majority dindividus declares to earn more to be happier, the effect of this increase will be short because the man always ends adapt.

The rest of the work is relatively conventional and resume work where he left off in his previous work. It analyzes the transformation of the employee / employer relationship / society, the end of Western hegemony and the Chinese question ...

I liked this book because he comes out of the guns of the economy and that the author take risks by questioning the tool that made its own success, but also giving just his own opinion (this is certainly full of good feelings).

This book does not appeal to addicts of certainty and its derivatives but for others it will Laffaire. Cohen delivers a work littered with doubts and dune certainty, the one we were wrong, that is wrong again lon but it can change. Enjoy reading.