Public Outreach

Only in French | This collective work, proposed for the 30th anniversary of the Collège des Economistes de la Santé and coordinated by Thomas Barnay (Université Paris-Est Créteil), Anne-Laure Samson (Université de Lille/LEM), and Bruno Ventelou (AMU/CNRS/AMSE), analyses the main challenges facing the health system. Available online on 24 June and in bookshops on 12 July 2021.

What is talent? According to the economist Alain Trannoy, it is the sum of an initial skill and the efforts made to maintain it. This definition is part of a larger philosophical sphere focused on equal opportunity, which applies to a redistributive tax model that aims to reduce income inequality.

Only in French | In this book, Arnaud Lacan (KEDGE Business School/AMSE) presents the social and solidarity economy as a viable and sustainable alternative to traditional work systems based on surveillance and verticality.

A team of researchers from Aix-Marseille School of Economics and the Institut de Neurosciences de la Timone is proposing an indicator that measures the dynamics of the Covid-19 pandemic and an algorithm for the spatial distribution of the tests. Their research was published in the scientific journal PLOS ONE.

Only in French | In this book, available in bookstores on June 2, 2021, Economists Gilles Dufrénot (AMU/AMSE) and Anne Levasseur-Franceschi (ENS Cachan) put the health crisis of Covid-19 in globalization's broader context.

Only in French | Economist Gilles Dufrénot (AMSE/AMU/FEG/CEPII) was the guest on Radio France Internationale's "Éco d'ici éco d'ailleurs" programme on 1 June 2021.21.

Only in French | Frédéric Rychen (AMU,AMSE) was one of the guests of the program "Entendez-vous l'éco?" on France Culture.

It can provoke cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, contribute to climate change, impair the growth of crops, and damage buildings... Needless to say, air pollution causes a myriad of harmful effects. But how do you calculate the benefits associated with cleaner air when they do not come with a price tag? One way to do it is to estimate the amount we would be willing to pay to avoid associated deaths. And this is exactly what the economist Olivier Chanel did. Using research from Santé publique France, he expresses in euros the deaths that could be prevented by reducing air pollution.

With the Covid-19 crisis, the level of French national debt has shot up, but can we be sure that such high levels of debt will impede growth? This is a tricky question to answer, because there are many factors at work, such as variations in GDP (the primary consequence of excessive debt), or the quality of the information received by economic players. A study by economists Arnaud Chéron, Kazuo Nishimura, Carine Nourry, Thomas Seegmuller and Alain Venditti examines the complex issue of the relationship between debt and GDP.

Departments in France with the same socio-economic and historical conditions nevertheless present different fertility rates. Paolo Melindi-Ghidi and Thomas Seegmuller explain these surprising results by introducing a new hypothesis called “love for children”.