Laurent Mauduit

Journaliste au Quotidien de Paris (1979), puis à l'Agence centrale de Presse (1979-1984), à La Tribune de l'économie (1984-1990). Chef du service économique de Libération (1991-1994) avant d'entrer au Monde, en charge de la politique économique française (1995-1999), puis rédacteur en chef du service Entreprises (1999-2003), directeur adjoint de la rédaction (2003-2005), éditorialiste (2006). Quitte Le Monde, en décembre 2006, en désaccord avec la politique éditoriale. Cofondateur de Mediapart. Auteur des ouvrages suivants:

 - Histoire secrète des dossiers noirs de la gauche (en collaboration), Éditions Alain Moreau, 1986

- La grande méprise (en collaboration), Grasset, 1996

- La gauche imaginaire et le nouveau capitalisme (avec Gérard Desportes), Grasset, 1999

 - Voyage indiscret au cœur de l’État (en collaboration), Éditions Le Monde-Le Pré aux Clercs, 2000

 - Les stock-options (avec Philippe Jaffré), Grasset, 2002

- L’adieu au socialisme (avec Gérard Desportes), Grasset, 2002

- Jacques le Petit, Stock, 2005

- Petits conseils, Stock, 2007

- Sous le Tapie, Stock, 2008

- Les 110 propositions, 1981-2011 - Manuel critique à l'usage des citoyens qui rêvent encore de changer la vie, Don Quichotte, 2011 (ouvrage collectif de la rédaction de Mediapart) 

- Les imposteurs de l'économie, Editions Gawsewitch, 2012 (Réédité en 2013 par les Editions Pocket, puis en 2016 en version numérique par les Éditions Don Quichotte)

- L'étrange capitulation, Editions Gawsewitch, 2013. Cet ouvrage a été réédité en version numérique en mars 2015 par les éditions Don Quichotte.

- Tapie, le scandale d'Etat, Stock, 2013 - Cette affaire a aussi donné lieu à un documentaire Tapie et la République - Autopsie d'un scandale d'Etat (70', Nova Production), que j'ai co-écrit avec le réalisateur Thomas Johnson et qui a été diffusé la première fois par France 5 le 31 mars 2015.

- A tous ceux qui ne se résignent pas à la débâcle qui vient (Don Quichotte, 2014)

- Main basse sur l'information (Don Quichotte, 2016)

- La Caste. Enquête sur cette haute fonction publique qui a pris le pouvoir (La Découverte, septembre 2018).

- Prédations. Histoire des privatisations des biens publics,  (La Découverte, septembre 2020).

- Trotskisme, Histoires secrètes - De Lambert à Mélenchon (avec Denis Sieffert), Les petits matins, 2024.

- Vous ne me trouverez pas sur Amazon (Divergences, 2024)

All his articles

  • Study finds surge in numbers of people in poverty in France

    France — Analysis

    A report released this month by an independent research body on social exclusion calculates that up to one million more people in France fell below the poverty line between 2005 and 2015. While the financial and economic crisis is largely responsible, the slight recovery of growth has had little, if any, effect on easing the numbers of poor, one third of who are children. Laurent Mauduit analyses the data.

    by Laurent Mauduit

  • Mystery of French minister's massive Air France pay-off

    France — Investigation

    A French government minister's declarations of her past income have shed a stark light on the system of privileges enjoyed by an elite group of civil servants in France. That system allowed Florence Parly, a career civil servant who is now minister for the Armed Forces, to take up lucrative jobs outside the civil service without ever risking her security of employment. She even managed to negotiate a golden handshake from Air France worth around half a million euros. Laurent Mauduit reports.

    by Laurent Mauduit

  • Study shows 'unprecedented' rise in poverty in France

    France — Analysis

    In its latest study on household income and capital, France's statistical agency INSEE notes that the median standard of living in France fell by 1.1% between 2008 and 2013, a drop not seen since records began in 1996. For the 10% worst-off families the fall was even greater, with their income falling by 3.5%. The agency writes of an “unprecedented worsening of poverty in France”. Laurent Mauduit reports.

    by Laurent Mauduit

  • The cronyism behind top French culture posts

    France

    Recent nominations to plum public posts in cultural institutions in France illustrate a system of cronyism and jobs-for-the-boys which President François Hollande had, at the time of his election four years ago, promised to end. Laurent Mauduit reports on the favours and backscratching at the heights of some of France’s most prestigious museums.

    by Laurent Mauduit

  • French economy minister Macron to bid for presidency

    France — Investigation

    French economy minister Emmanuel Macron is to announce he will make a bid as an independent candidate for the French presidency in elections due in 2017, Mediapart has been told by well-informed sources. Macron, 38, who launched his own political movement last month, is reported to be actively seeking funds for his campaign. The move, which Mediapart understands may be announced in early June, could well be the final blow for President François Hollande’s own ambitions for a second term in office and has heightened tensions between Macron and Prime Minister Manuel Valls. Laurent Mauduit reports.

    by Laurent Mauduit

  • The hidden address that exposes French economy minister's true colours

    France

    French economy minister Emmanuel Macron this week announced the launch of his political movement, En Marche, raising speculation that he was preparing a bid for next year’s presidential elections. Macron, a former advisor to socialist president François Hollande and who holds no elected office, declared that his movement was neither left- nor right-wing. But, as Laurent Mauduit reports, it is in fact domiciled at the private address of the director of one of the leading think tanks of French business.

    by Laurent Mauduit

  • French judges send IMF chief Lagarde for trial

    France — Investigation

    International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde has been sent for trial in France for “negligence” when she was French finance minister in her management of an arbitration process that awarded French businessman Bernard Tapie with 404 million euros paid out of public funds, Mediapart can reveal. Earlier this month the Paris appeals court ordered Tapie to pay back the controversial 2008 payout. Michel Deléan and Laurent Mauduit report.

    by Michel Deléan and Laurent Mauduit

  • The detail of the hidden assets that landed Guy Wildenstein in the dock

    International — Investigation

    One of the world’s most prominent art dealers, Guy Wildenstein, is to stand trial in Paris next month on charges of tax fraud and money laundering. The case centres on undeclared assets from the estate of his late father Daniel Wildenstein, for which Guy Wildenstein and other members of his family have received a record tax adjustment totalling 550 million euros. Mediapart has gained access to the judicial document detailing the case for the trial, and which reveals the staggering sums involved and the complex offshore structures that hid, among other assets, a stash of prized artworks. Laurent Mauduit reports.

    by Laurent Mauduit

  • 'Millions' of small investors affected by Natixis funds' hidden commissions

    France — Investigation

    A system of hidden commissions on investment funds operated by Natixis Asset Management and sold to small investors in France via the company’s parent bank BPCE is estimated to have creamed off about 100 million euros from unwitting customers. Amid an investigation into the affair by the French financial markets regulator, Mediapart publishes here a hitherto confidential list of the 75 funds involved. Laurent Mauduit reports.

    by Laurent Mauduit

  • The battle to stop Toulouse Airport sell-off

    France

    Local residents and councillors have launched a legal bid to stop one of France's leading regional airports falling under the effective control of a Chinese-led consortium. Though economy minister Emmanuel Macron denies that Toulouse-Blagnac Airport in the south-west of the country is being 'privatised', Mediapart has published leaked documents that contradict this. For while the joint Chinese-Canadian group involved has bought 'only' 49.9% of the shares, they will have full de facto authority over key decisions about the airport's future. On Tuesday the takeover's opponents failed to get an emergency injunction to stop the sale going ahead. But the courts will now examine in detail whether the sale procedure was conducted legally. Laurent Mauduit reports on the fight to keep the airport under public control.

    by Laurent Mauduit

  • Official: why President Hollande's economic policies are doomed to fail

    France — Analysis

    The influential Observatoire Français des Conjonctures Économiques (OFCE), known as the French Economic Observatory in English, has just published a powerful critique of French government economic policy. In cautious but bleak language it charts how austerity is sapping France's economy while pointing out that the government's massive hand-outs to companies will contribute only a meagre stimulus to growth. Its grim conclusions match those of other economists, but this study differs by also showing how austerity choked off a recovery back in 2010 that could have delivered nearly 2.4% growth instead of the anaemic, near-zero growth since. It is, argues Mediapart's Laurent Mauduit, a damning indictment of President François Hollande's economic strategy.

    by Laurent Mauduit

  • How Nobel prize-winner Jean Tirole led the private sector takeover of French economic studies

    France — Opinion

    Earlier this week the Nobel prize for economics went to French economist Jean Tirole, who the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences described as “one of the most influential economists of our time”. Tirole was awarded the prize for his work on market power and regulation of large firms’ monopolistic practices, and the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy announced that “this year’s prize in economic sciences is about taming powerful firms”. But amid the wide acclaim for Tirole in France and abroad, Mediapart economics and business writer Laurent Mauduit advises caution. Here he argues why Tirole, the founder of the prestigious Toulouse School of Economics, is one of the principal champions of the rampant private sector takeover of economics teaching and research in France, to the detriment of the science and the public higher education system.

    by Laurent Mauduit

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Laurent Mauduit

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164 Posts

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  • Collaborations : enquête sur les milieux d’affaires et l’extrême droite

    Blog post

    C’est un enseignement constant de l’histoire : l’extrême droite n’a jamais pris le pouvoir sans que les milieux d’affaires n’y consentent ou l’y aident. J’ai donc jugé urgent d’écrire ce livre pour mettre au jour les connexions établies, souvent secrètes, et mesurer la gravité des menaces qui pèsent aujourd’hui sur notre démocratie.

  • Panthéonisation : les conditions posées par la famille de Marc Bloch

    Blog post

    À la suite de l’annonce par Emmanuel Macron de la prochaine panthéonisation du grand historien Marc Bloch, fusillé par la Gestapo le 16 juin 1944, sa famille a écrit une lettre à Emmanuel Macron lui faisant part de ses souhaits : Pas de religion ! Pas d'extrême droite ! Voici cette lettre dans sa version intégrale.

  • « Le refus de démocratie à LFI est une impasse politique pour la gauche »

    Blog post

    En janvier, lors de la publication « Trotskisme, histoires secrètes – De Lambert à Mélenchon », que j’ai co-écrit avec Denis Sieffert, c’est l’alerte que nous lancions à la faveur d’un entretien à Politis pour présenter notre ouvrage. Malheureusement, nous y voilà !

  • Les zigzags de Michel Broué entre politique, éthique et mathématiques

    Blog post

    Dans un livre inclassable et captivant, Michel Broué évoque tantôt les grands combats démocratiques auxquels il a participé, tantôt les mathématiques, son autre passion. Dénonçant dans un cas comme dans l’autre les idées reçues et l’apparent bon sens, il plaide en faveur de ce qu’il appelle une « subversion fertile ».

  • Vous ne me trouverez pas sur Amazon !

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    Mon livre qui paraît vendredi sous ce titre ne sera effectivement pas distribué par l’oligopole américain, symbole des dérives du capitalisme financiarisé. Il a l’ambition d’alerter sur les dangers qui pèsent sur le livre et sur la presse, pris en tenaille entre les puissances d’argent et les géants du numérique que sont Amazon, Google ou encore Facebook.