About The European Economics Book award

Pierre Cahuc and André Zylberberg today received the 2004 European Economics Book Award for their work entitled "Le chômage, fatalité ou nécessité?" ("Unemployment: Fatality or necessity ?"), published by Editions Flammarion. The award was presented by Marcel Boiteux, Honorary Chairman of EDF at a ceremony at the Musée des Beaux Arts de Bruxelles.

Special awards also went to Daniel Cohen for "La mondialisation et ses ennemis" ("Globalization and its Enemies"), published by Editions Grasset, and Michel Aglietta and Antoine Rebérioux for "Dérives du capitalisme financier" ("The Abuses of Financial Capitalism"), published by Editions Albin Michel.

The European Economics Book award was created in 2000 through a partnership between the association Lire la Politique and Electricité de France. This prize is awarded to a work published in the current year. The works selected are devoted to economics issues and the topics are aimed at a European readership. The jury is composed principally of European journalists.

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