[eng] Never before did the prices of raw materials, the price of oil and exchange rate of the dollar decline all at the same time while growth was prevailing. A review of such declines, conducted over the starting 1860, shows that the present situation is abnormal. Will its consequences on the...

[eng] The cities of Hong-Kong and Singapore, of british origin and Chinese population, enjoy a standard of living comparable to that of southern Europe. They have both experimented an exceptionally fast growth over the past twenty years within opposite social and political frames : liberalism in...

[eng] Twelve years after the first oil shock, the fall in oil price appears as a logical consequence of the sharp mutations that occured in the international oil market since the begining of the 80's. The reduction of demand for OPEC oil was in a paradoxical way evicting producers with main oil...

[eng] In the last twenty years the French society has been affected by radical transformations which should be taken into account when studying the links between economy and society. During the period of very rapid economic growth, the massive enrichment has been the condition of social changes,...