Marie-Béatrice Baudet and Stéphane Lauer
Marie-Béatrice Baudet works as a journalist for Le Monde, where she edits the daily's economics supplement Le Monde Economie and its Planète environment pages.
Born in 1962, Stéphane Lauer has worked for Le Monde since 1994, where he is now senior editor in charge of the daily's economics desk. He is also noted for his specialist reporting on the car industry, his book "Renault a French Revolution" (Renault: une révolution française) was published in 2005.
Updated: 15 September 2009
Twelve months into the economic crisis, a commission chaired by Economics Nobel Prize laureate Joseph Stiglitz is advocating the widespread use of a new economic performance indicator, which does a better job of measuring the well-being of populations. France wants Europe to take note of the commission's report.