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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…