Augustin Landier
Augustin Landier is a professor at the Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) and the co-author (along with David Thesmar) of two books on the social impact of the finance industry: Le Grand Méchant Marché ("The Big Bad Market" published by Flammarion in 2007) and La société translucide, ("A Translucent Society" published by Fayard in 2010). He is also a regular contributor to the ideas pages of the French business and economics daily Les Echos.
Updated: 27 September 2010
Tensions between regions in Belgium and Italy, and the expulsion of the Roma from France have highlighted an underlying conflict in societies that wish to be both generous and socially diverse. According to two French economists, it is a tug-of-war that also has the potential to undermine the European Union.