SCIENTIFIC STUDY NEW ERA, NEW HOPE Authors: Abdulmenaf Bexheti, Branimir Jovanović, Vancho Uzunov, Gligor Bishev, Dragan Minovski, Dragan Tevdovski, Ivana Vuchkova, Mario Holzner, Mila Carovska, Olimpija Hristova-Zaevska, Sanela Shkrijelj, Stefan Bouzarovski “We are suffering just now from a bad attack of economic pessimism. It is common to hear people say that the epoch of enormous economic progress which characterised the nineteenth century is over; that the rapid improvement in the standard of life is now going to slow down; that a decline in prosperity is more likely than an improvement in the decade which lies ahead of us. I believe that this is a wildly mistaken interpretation of what is happening to us. We are suffering, not from the rheumatics of old age, but from the growing pains of over-rapid changes, from the painfulness of readjustment between one economic period and another.“ ­John Maynard Keynes, Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren (1930)* Skopje, 2023