by Erik Orsenna · LGF/Le Livre de Poche · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782253121947
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«Voyage aux pays du coton» is Erik Orsenna's popular economics essay, published by LGF/Le Livre de Poche in paperback (307 pages, in French).
The author traces cotton from cultivation to the textile industry, traveling through Mali, the United States, Brazil, Egypt, Uzbekistan, China and France. Through this investigation, Orsenna explains the dynamics of globalization and its effects on the economy, agriculture and the environment.
First volume in the «Petit précis de mondialisation» series. Winner of the Prix du Livre d'Économie and the Corine Internationaler Buchpreis.
Recommended for readers interested in global economics, international trade and journalistic travel essays.
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.
