In the next few minutes, I will review the changes and propose goals and ways to reconcile economic and human considerations (1800) Successful reconciliation of these considerations depend
s on our ability to strike a healthy balance between competition and individual achievement, on the one hand, and sharing and co-operation, on the other hand. In the last 20 years, our economy has been shaken by three major changes: the global economic slowdown which started
in 1973; two major anti-inflationary recessions in 1981 and 1990; and, in
...[+++]the last decade, the economic system's gradual rejection of people with little education.
Notre économie a été secouée depuis vingt ans par trois bouleversements majeurs: le ralentissement économique mondial qui persiste depuis 1973, deux profondes récessions anti-inflationnistes en 1981 et en 1990, et, depuis une décennie, le rejet progressif de la population faiblement scolarisée par le système économique.
