The market economy.

Summary More than ever, the market is an inescapable reality that weighs on our social organization and on our daily lives. Does this mean that the market alone provides the keys to the future? In order to answer this question, which more often than not provokes reactions that are as partial as they are biased, Roger Guesnerie takes up the challenge of drawing up an objective and enlightening panorama of market economies. He looks at their construction throughout history, at the intellectual debates and political controversies that their operation has provoked. It then examines some of the challenges facing market economies in the 21st century. In this way, a retrospective and a prospective view complement each other to serve the public debate. A third part comments on the major contemporary problems of market economies: globalization, sustainable development and the role of the State.