Is the crisis in Western democracies a crisis of the elites?
Which crisis ? Everyone knows that a crisis calls for an urgent decision. This is the meaning of the Greek word “krenein”, which is the origin of the word as found inRead More…
Which crisis ? Everyone knows that a crisis calls for an urgent decision. This is the meaning of the Greek word “krenein”, which is the origin of the word as found inRead More…
France, a service economy In 1973, with the first oil shock, France discovered the structural weaknesses of its economy, and entered a period of stagflation, i.e. high inflation without wealth creation. ItRead More…
Between the publication of an open letter, on March 22, on the site “Future of Life”, which calls for a 6-month moratorium on research in artificial intelligence, signed by 27,565 people includingRead More…
Putin is definitely looking to China. In the first quarter of 2023, Chinese imports, into Russia, amounted to USD 24.07 billion year-on-year, up 47.1% year-on-year, while Russian exports reached USD 29.77 billionRead More…
We know that most CO2 emissions come from the manufacture of systems, appliances and machines of all kinds, and I’m not including the other pollutants that these industrial processes release. For computersRead More…
We saw in the post (Productivity gains are the conquest of happiness) that productivity gains, by generating surpluses, opened the way to innovation. Without the productivity gains made possible by the steamRead More…
No one doubts that the adaptability of human societies is the key to their survival. Jared Diamond describes the example of the Viking stable society in Greenland between the 10th and 15thRead More…
During the Covid-19 epidemic, Europe acted towards the Eurozone countries as a shield to avoid a sovereign debt crisis that had shaken the zone after the subprime crisis. The IMF estimates thatRead More…
Carlos Tavares announced last year, in March 2019, that PSA had decided to withdraw from the race to level 4 and 5 autonomous car for individuals. This had sounded like abandoning aRead More…
The digital transformation or digital transition is today the subject “must have” of any corporate strategy. If it is absent, the credibility of the growth prospects will be mechanically reduced, when itRead More…