by Erik Orsenna · Fayard · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782213625270
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«Voyage aux pays du coton» is the economic essay by Erik Orsenna, published by Fayard in paperback (306 pages, in French).
Erik Orsenna follows the paths of cotton, from agriculture to the textile industry and biochemistry, with stops in Mali, China, Texas, Brazil, Egypt, Uzbekistan and France. The analysis of a simple fabric, made of threads and links, serves him to explain the globalisation of yesterday and today.
First volume of the series «Petit précis de mondialisation». Winner of the Prix du Livre d'Économie and, in 2007, of the Corine Internationaler Buchpreis.
For readers interested in the global economy, trade and popularisation; an essay combining travel, history and industry.
Érik Orsenna is the pen-name of Érik Arnoult a French politician and novelist. After studying philosophy and political science at the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris, Orsenna specialized in economics at the London School of Economics. He was a close collaborator of François Mitterrand and held several government positions in the 1980s and 1990s. He is a member of the Conseil d'État, having been appointed in 1985. He was elected to the Académie Française on 28 May 1998. He won the 1990 International Nonino Prize in Italy. For Voyage au pays du coton he received the second prize of the Lettre Ulysses Award in 2006.
