This book is a collection of the economics and contemporary issues courses I taught for ten years in higher education: economics courses at two leading business schools in Strasbourg (the ISEG (Institut Supérieur Européen de Gestion) and the ECS (European Communication School) and the "contemporary issues" course in Classes Préparatoires de Sciences Politiques at SCIENCES PO. EUROFORCE in Bischheim.It combines courses in economic analysis, macroeconomics, international economics, international trade, international economic and financial governance, and the history of economic and sociological thought, all taught at ISEG and ECS, with contemporary socio-economic issues, three of which I particularly focused on at SCIENCES PO. EUROFORCE: globalization, culture and work.