Our IPA class is absolutely fabulous. The prof is my second INSEAD God after M. Brimm.

Heard in class and faithfully reported
- A cow in the EU makes more money than way over 2m people in the developing world. - Professor on inequalities worldwide and what was described as shameful agricultural policies of the Western world.

- I'd have to go and invade you, Mr A., to open this market - Professor to student on the difficulty of establishing free trade
- Excuse me? I sure don't like the idea to be "invaded" - student responded

- I have a tip for your business people: if you want to succeed in the US, make sure you can persuade Congress that your stuff is linked somehow to National Security. Intel did that and got shitload of money. No way anyone else on Earth can compete with them. - Professor on lobbying tactics

- Globalization is reversible. In fact, it has been reversed. The world was much more global at the end of the 19th Century when Britain played such a large role in protecting the maritime ways, with the Royal Navy, in providing efficient credit to the rest of the world through its London financial center.

- Post-war planning for WW II started in 1939 in the US, as soon as Germany invaded Poland. It was quite clear already to Congress that the fascist wouldn't win and they thought that they could get a massive advantage over the true ennemy: communism. - professor on the beginning of the Cold War