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…
04Aug/23
08May/23
AI a business and geopolitical issue
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…
05May/23
Macron, Putin and Ukraine, the double bind
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…
27Dec/22
Amsterdam, capital of European Protestantism
The history of Amsterdam is intertwined with the history of Calvinist Protestantism, of French origin, which contaminated the Netherlands via French Flanders. The attraction of Calvinism is to propose a return toRead More…
30Nov/22
Usage is shaping the future of the planet and the industry
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…
22Oct/22
Few thinkings about time….
On what does our gaze open? It sends back to us the image of a space that unfolds and that invites us to move freely. Is the time, an invisible reality thatRead More…
28Aug/22
Ethics, the company’s cardinal value
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…
16Aug/22
Prices, companies and innovation
The setting of prices for goods and services is an essentially economic mechanism, because it determines not only wealth, by valuing the goods and services exchanged, but also the value of theRead More…
24Jul/22
Productivity gains are the steps toward humanity happiness
It began with agriculture. The productivity gains of agriculture in France have allowed the development of other activities for the well-being of men and women. Let’s start from the state where eachRead More…
03Jul/22
Democracy, the only lasting cure for our ills
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…