C'est une révolte? Non, Sire, c'est une révolution

by Charles Gave

Nous sommes entrés, depuis un certain temps déjà, dans la troisième grande révolution technologique que l'humanité ait connue. Après être passés de la cueillette et du nomadisme à l'agriculture puis à l'ère industrielle, nous entrons dans l'économie de la connaissance. Cette révolution aura des conséquences incommensurables sur la société et l'organisation du monde : disparition du modèle social français ; affrontement direct entre le modèle individualiste anglo-saxon et le modèle communautariste religieux islamique ; faillite de l'euro, la dernière tentative de superstructure monétaire totalement archaïque ; fin de la plus-value industrielle au profit de la plus-value intellectuelle, etc. Mais les " princes " qui nous gouvernent refusent d'affronter cette réalité. Par méconnaissance ou par malhonnêteté, ils " vendent " encore au bon peuple une société déjà morte. Ils n'ont qu'un seul objectif : que le peuple continue de payer pour cette illusion. Et qu'une seule peur : que le " tiers-état " moderne se révolte comme en 89. Pourtant, qu'ils le veuillent ou non, la révolution a commencé ! Charles Gave pose son regard d'économiste et de financier international sur notre époque : ses analyses sont violentes, précises, argumentées et pleines d'humour ; ses solutions radicales et d'une redoutable logique.

170 pages, Paperback

Published March 4, 2016

About the author

Charles undertook his graduate studies in Toulouse in economics and then received an MBA from SUNY Binghamton. He started his financial market career at the Banque de Suez in 1970. In 1974, he left to create Cecogest, an independent research firm providing institutional investors advice on tactical asset allocation. In 1981, he moved to London where he established Cursitor-Eaton Asset Management, a money management firm where he was CIO. In 1995, when Cursitor-Eaton had reached US$10bn in assets under management, Charles and his partners sold the firm to Alliance Capital, where he remained until 1999. In 2000, Charles launched Gavekal in Hong Kong with his son Louis-Vincent and friend Anatole Kaletsky. The key driver behind Gavekal was the idea that China was set to be an ever-bigger part of the global economy and financial markets. Charles moved to Hong Kong in 2003 and remained there until 2015, when he moved back to France.
In his spare time, Charles reads and sometimes writes books. His first book, Des Lions Menes Par des Anes, written in 2001 at the time of the euro’s launch, was a best seller in France and has gone through several re-prints. His first book written in English, Our Brave New World (co-authored with Louis), published in 2005, was a top-100 seller on Amazon that year. His latest book, Clash of Empires: Currencies and Power in a Multipolar World, also written with Louis, reviews the investment consequences of the breakdown in the US-China relationship.
When he is not reading or writing Charles can be found on the side of the pitch of the Biarritz Olympique Pays Basque, the professional rugby team he owns with his son Louis, and which he hopes will soon return to its glorious recent past.
Charles has been married to Chantal since 1966. Together they have 4 children and 11 grandchildren.