Cédric Durand

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Cédric Durand
Born1975 (age 50–51)
Academic background
Alma materSchool for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
ThesisUne analyse institutionnaliste de la coordination industrielle : étude des transformations de la métallurgie russe (1992-2001) (2002)
Jacques Sapir
Academic work
Institutions

Cédric Durand (born 1975) is a French economist.[1] He earned a degree from the Grenoble Institute of Political Studies and a doctorate from the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences. His doctoral thesis was supervised by Jacques Sapir, and he did postdoctoral work at the National Autonomous University of Mexico.[2]

After teaching at Claude Bernard University Lyon 1 and Sorbonne Paris North University, he became a professor in the Department of History, Economics and Society (DHES) at the University of Geneva in 2020.[3] His research focuses on globalization, financialization, and the transformations of contemporary capitalism. It is rooted in the tradition of Marxist political economy.[4] Cédric Durand has also advocated for a cyber-socialist[5] and ecological economy and politics, which he calls cyber-ecosocialism.[6]

His recent work focuses on the transformation of capitalism into a kind of technofeudalism where a few very large corporations use their monopoly on data to control social activity and extract rent.[7][8][9]

Political and intellectual engagement

In 2011, while a member of the New Anticapitalist Party, Durand together with Razmig Keucheyan, published an opinion piece in Libération entitled L’isolement du NPA (“The Isolation of the NPA”), in which the authors encouraged the party “to engage in a constructive political confrontation with the other currents of the radical left.”[10]

In 2023, he held the Chair of Economics at the Institut La Boétie, a think tank affiliated with La France Insoumise.[11]

Durand has contributed articles to the journal Contretemps.[12][4]

Publications

  • Durand, Cédric, ed. (2013). En finir avec l'Europe (in French). Paris: La Fabrique. ISBN 9782358720489. OCLC 859139507.
  • Durand, Cédric (2014). Le capital fictif. Comment la finance s’approprie notre avenir. Essais (in French). Paris: Les prairies ordinaires. ISBN 9782350960937. OCLC 897723704.
  • Orléan, André; Durand, Cédric; Cohen, Daniel; Bellofiore, Riccardo, eds. (2018). Penser la monnaie et la finance avec Marx. Autour de Suzanne de Brunhoff (in French). Presses Universitaires de Rennes. ISBN 9782753574786. OCLC 1053807425.
  • Durand, Cédric (2020). Technoféodalisme. Critique de l’économie numérique (in French). Paris: La Découverte. ISBN 9782355221156. OCLC 1204202322.[13]
  • Durand, Cédric; Keucheyan, Razmig (2024). Comment bifurquer: Les principes de la planification écologique (in French). Zones. ISBN 9782355221910. OCLC 1426859504.[14]
  • Durand, Cédric (2025). Faut-il se passer du numérique pour sauver la planète ?. Les Livres de l'Institut La Boétie (in French). Paris: Editions Amsterdam. ISBN 9782354803148. OCLC 1514366890.[15]

References

  1. "Notice de personne "Durand, Cédric (1975-....)"". BnF. Retrieved 3 January 2026.
  2. "Cédric DURAND". Centre d'etudes des modes d'industrialisation. École des hautes études en sciences sociales. Retrieved 4 January 2026.
  3. "Membres". Direction du Département d'histoire, économie et société (DEHES). Université de Genève (in French). Retrieved 3 January 2025.
  4. "Cédric Durand THE NEW INSTITUTE - THE NEW INSTITUTE". thenew.institute. Retrieved 9 May 2026.
  5. Durand, Cédric; Keucheyan, Razmig (2019). "Planifier à l'âge des algorithmes". Actuel Marx (in French). 65 (1): 81–102. doi:10.3917/amx.065.0081. ISSN 0994-4524. Retrieved 19 July 2024.
  6. La voie étroite d'un cyber-écosocialisme - Chaire Cédric Durand #3. Institut La Boétie. 20 March 2024. Retrieved 19 July 2024 – via YouTube.
  7. Durand, Cédric (12 January 2023). "Musk s'inscrit dans une logique techno-féodale". Le Nouvel observateur (Interview) (in French). Interviewed by Riché, Pascal. pp. 28–29. Retrieved 3 January 2026.
  8. Lucas, Jérémy. "Technoféodalisme by Cédric Durand". Dygest (in French). Retrieved 3 January 2026.
  9. "Techno-féodalisme - Cédric Durand - Éditions La Découverte". www.editionsladecouverte.fr. Retrieved 9 May 2026.
  10. "Le NPA face au risque d'isolement". Le Nouvel Obs (in French). 8 February 2011. Retrieved 9 May 2026.
  11. "Économie". Institut la Boétie (in French). Retrieved 8 February 2023.
  12. "Rédaction". Contretemps (in French). Retrieved 9 May 2026.
  13. Frondeur, Yannick (July–September 2022). "Cédric Durand, Technoféodalisme. Critique de l'économie numérique". Sociologie du travail (in French). 64 (3). doi:10.4000/sdt.41620. Retrieved 3 January 2026.
  14. Wakim, Nabil (19 April 2024). "« Comment bifurquer » : un manuel pour planifier la transition sociale et écologique". Le Monde (in French). Retrieved 3 January 2026.
  15. Noyon, Rémi; Billard, Sébastien (18 March 2025). "« La présidence Trump démontre que les capitalistes ne sont pas capables de se gouverner eux-mêmes »". Le Nouvel Obs (in French). Retrieved 3 January 2026.