LE FIGARO.- In your essay
Les Maladies du bonheur
, published just before the onset of the health crisis, you explained that the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century had been marked by the very sharp increase in depressions in Western democracies.
Will the pandemic and the confinements applied - to varying degrees - in most Western countries accelerate this process?
Hugues LAGRANGE.- The pandemic represents a brutal brake on economic activity and social life such as the world had not known since the Second World War.
It has shattered growth, pinned airplanes to the ground, reduced trade of all kinds.
However, growth has been a race led for two decades by Asian countries, and Westerners deplore their own slowness in this regard.
This change of pace was neither decided nor wanted, it imposed itself with more force than any of the warnings linked to the climate or to financial disturbances had.
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