Thomas Porcher joins Stock editions

Thomas Porcher joins Stock editions
Thomas Porcher joins Stock editions

On April 16, 2024, after a long standoff, the Hachette Livre group announced in a press release that it had terminated the functions ofIsabelle Saportauntil then CEO of Fayard and officially replaced in her post by Lise Boëll on June 5.

As soon as the potential ouster of Isabelle Saporta was announced in early March, some authors had announced their intention to leave Fayard. Among them, the economist Thomas Porcherfamous in particular for his essays Treatise on heretical economics: putting an end to the dominant discourse (Fayard, 2018) and The Forsaken: How to Transform a Divided Bloc into a Majority Force (Fayard, 2020).

Regarding his departure from Fayard, he had announced to Marianne : ” I have published three books with Isabelle, not counting those I co-signed. We have been working together for six years. I am linked to her and obviously, I will follow her “, while remaining relatively discreet on the subject: ” I don’t have much more to comment on. I think she’s leaving for good reasons. »

It was at Stock publishing house (also owned by Hachette Livre) that the economist finally found refuge and where his next graphic novel will be published, Economics for the 99% in collaboration with Ludivine Stock And Raphael Ruffier-Fossoul announced for next October 30th and printed in approximately 20,000 copies according to the publishing house and its essay, The Vacationer, scheduled for April 2025.

It was this work that started the discussion between the economist and Stock at the beginning of 2024 according to Manualgeneral director of the publishing house: ” Thomas Porcher was very interested in participating in the development of the “Immersion” collection imagined by Stock, by writing an essay on his own experience. One thing led to another and he decided to join us. “.

Isabelle Saporta, for her part, bounced back at RTL as an editorialist in the morning show of the private radio station.

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