Stéphane · Lalut
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Stéphane Lalut — Economist, independent researcher and essayist. Author of the framework of anthropy.

Stéphane Lalut is an economist, independent researcher and essayist. He develops the framework of anthropy — the hypothesis that social systems displace disorder rather than resolve it — through a series of working papers and four published books. He is also the author of two further books, devoted to the history of ideas and to literature.

9working papers with a DOI

6books, 4 in the anthropic corpus

20published texts

12journals and newspapers

European marketing management, public-sector consulting, international entrepreneurship: that path came before the research and the writing. It explains the method — analytical rigour, and close attention to the concrete mechanisms by which a cost changes hands.

Author

The books of the anthropic corpus, then the other works.

The anthropic corpus

Couverture — ANTHROPY – A Big History of Civilization's Hidden Costs
ANTHROPY – A Big History of Civilization's Hidden Costs632 pagesNo society resolves disorder: it displaces it — elsewhere, later, onto others. The book that lays out the framework and tests it against long-range history.
Couverture — Un président peut-il tenir ses promesses ?
Un président peut-il tenir ses promesses ?In French286 pagesA president can decide and nothing happens. A four-zone grid to tell, before voting, where a promise breaks — and afterwards, who could not from who did not try.
Couverture — Dette Publique : Qui paie vraiment ?
Dette Publique : Qui paie vraiment ?In French225 pagesThe real question is not who repays the debt, but who absorbs its cost. The book follows the chain, from today's taxpayers to generations that never voted.
Couverture — La Société du premier coup
La Société du premier coupIn French138 pagesEveryone falls. The privilege is that the falls do not stick. The book counts what inequality measures leave out of frame: how many attempts a trajectory actually allows.

Other works

Couverture — L'Odyssée des idées
L'Odyssée des idéesIn FrenchNew edition · 696 pagesThe history of ideas is not a chronological parade: it is a network. 250 ports of call and seven itineraries, from the dawn of humanity to artificial intelligence.
Couverture — Livresque des mots
Livresque des motsIn French3rd edition · 680 pagesAn anthology with no classification, neither alphabetical nor thematic: disorder is the principle. Twenty-five centuries of voices to be read like a novel, with an index of authors to find them again.

Each page sets out the book’s argument, its contents and where to buy it.

In journals and the intellectual press

Each tile names what the text is about.

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Researcher

Each paper in the series is deposited on Zenodo with its own DOI.

Anthropie Working Papers

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