“I think that we live in a world where ideology will play a dominant role. I think it’s almost the opposite to what people think, that after the fall of the Berlin Wall somehow we became all very pragmatic and therefore we can all run our own business on a daily basis without having to care about the big picture. I think it is just the opposite. Now that the Berlin Wall has fallen, somehow you feel lonely because you don’t know to whom you have to oppose your own vision. And so that’s a moment when the price, I would say, of ideology has reason because people want to think of their life as something more than simply the daily routine of doing one’s work. And I believe that is the period in which we are now…”

Daniel Cohen, Professor of Economics at the École d’économie de Paris