Augustin Landier is a professor at the Toulouse School of Economics(TSE) and the co-author (along with David Thesmar) of two books on the social impact of the finance industry: Le Grand Méchant Marché ("The Big Bad Market" published by Flammarion in 2007) and La société translucide, ("A Translucent Society" published by Fayard in 2010). He is also a regular contributor to the ideas pages of the French business and economics dailyLes Echos.