Can we trust the "Society of Distrust"?

Eloi Laurent (1)

1 OFCE - Observatoire français des conjonctures économiques (Sciences Po)

Confidence and trust have flown away: such seems to be the inevitable conclusion during these times of economic stagnation and collapsing banking system. It has thus become urgent to define more clearly the boundaries of that blurred and elusive notion, which is what Éloi Laurent proposes here in a tightly-reasoned criticism of Yann Algan and Pierre Cahuc's The Society of Distrust.

Domains: Humanities and Social Sciences; Economics and Finance

Eloi Laurent. Can we trust the "Society of Distrust"?. La vie des idées, 2009, pp.1-17. ⟨hal-01023640⟩