Whereas an unprecedented economic crisis has been shaking the world since 2007, the role of economists in this debacle and their inability to anticipate events has never been put into question with this being especially true in France. This is what Laurent Maduit believes in his new book called “The impostors of the economy” which caused some controversy.

In an uncompromising book, Benoit Mandelbrot, French graduate from Ecole Polytechnique, denounces the inconsistency of the orthodox theory of finance and presents his fractal vision of the markets