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A study by Lucie Adélaïde (Santé publique France), Olivier Chanel (AMU/CNRS/AMSE), Mathilde Pascal (Santé publique France) published in the European Journal of Health Economics and Bulletin épidémiologique hebdomadaire assesses the economic impact associated with mortality, morbidity, and loss of well-being during heat waves in France

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In May 2021, a French youtuber revealed on social networks that he had been approached by a communication agency to discredit the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. Following his statement, other European influencers report receiving an identical proposal. The deal was that they would put forward a pre-written false argument in exchange for a fee. The aim? Likely to promote another vaccine over the German one. This attempt to cast doubt is reminiscent of how industrialists attempt to manipulate public opinion. Economists Yann Bramoullé and Caroline Orset modelled the cost of firms’ manipulation of scientific facts.

Only in French | Nicolas Jacquemet (Université Paris 1 / École d’économie de Paris), Stéphane Luchini (CNRS/AMSE) and Antoine Malézieux (Burgundy School of Business) explain, in an article accessible to all on the website "La vie des idées", how behavioural economics sheds more light on the determinants of tax evasion.

Only in english | In this eBook, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) and World Bank bring together leading experts in international trade from academia and policy institutions to provide new analysis on the determinants of deep trade agreements. Freely available from 23 June 2021.

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.