INTERNATIONAL CONFLUENCES 6 (2015)
M. Nadji SAFIR

he author, in his analysis about the nature of society’s evolution and contemporary Algerian economy, presents the basic characteristics of the national economy by bringing to light the systematic failures heavily affecting its, whose the origin is not fully related to only erratic changes of hydrocarbon prices, but mainly to the Algerian society’s inability to adopt a veritable national productive base.

It explains the different social dynamics in the context of logic economic small private income and the way they continually interact in producing major main social categories characterizing the Algerian society.

The researcher confirms that a new vision of the country’s future requires "a new national project" as an absolute indispensable perspective to face all the economic, social and political challenges.