Discovering and rediscovering the Economy

Economics is a science that people naturally apply by mastering the use of its measuring instrument, ensuring justice and equity. Today, this instrument is represented in its final form as money, but historically, in different countries, it may have appeared in the form of salt, wheat or sheep. In practice, however, money has never been considered with this attribute of measurement, when in bartering, considered as the exchange of physical goods between themselves, no one will have noted the role of measurement, which is nevertheless played by a particular good. Consequently, money remained subject to the will of the Prince, and was used in ignorance of the rules governing its proper use. Paradoxically, this situation has led to high levels of inequality, unemployment, poverty and exclusion in developed countries, the privileged users of money. The aim here is to discover this natural economy by describing the behaviour of men and women who have acquired know-how and are familiar with the instrument of measurement.

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Lamine KEITA holds a PhD in Economics, is a Statistical Engineer and Economist from ENSAE-CESD, and is the author of a dozen books on economics. He worked at ENSAE-CESD training statistical engineers, then at the Ecole Nationale d'Economie Appliquée in Dakar, then at the Presidency of the Republic of Mali.