8 July 2021

Omnipresent Money

By Jeanne Lazarus, CSO Money is part of every sphere of modern life. The financial crisis of 2008 affected economic and social situations in many […]
8 July 2021

Curricula and Jobs: Understanding Gender Segregation

By Carlo Barone, Observatoire sociologique du changement Women now outperform men in education: their rates of upper secondary and tertiary attainment are significantly higher in […]
8 July 2021

When Courts are the Metronome of Productivity

By Johannes Boehm, Department of Economics Over the last decades, researchers have pointed out that firms in developing countries are less productive than their counterparts […]
16 March 2021

Policy Elites and Politics: The Case of Obamacare

Does the idea of all-powerful elites shaping public policy to align with their interests reflect reality? If so, how do they pull it off? If […]
16 March 2021

When Earning a Living Costs Your Life

by Jean-Noël Jouzel,  Jérôme Pelisse (CSO), Catherine Cavalin, Emmanuel Henry (IRISSO) A History of the Lack of Recognition for Occupational Illnesses Occupational illnesses, such as […]
16 March 2021

Is Innovation a Matter of Destruction and Creation?

Like mechanization in the 19th century, innovation – and especially digital innovation – is often considered to be a job destroyer. This is not the […]
16 March 2021

Writing the History of Our Laws

New Trends, New Methods by Frédéric Audren, Law School In 2017, the tribes living along the banks of the Whanganui river, the third-largest in New […]
16 March 2021

Passing Laws: When the End Justifies (or not) the Means

Even in democratic systems, governments are able to bypass regular legislative processes. What are the consequences, advantages and risks? To answer this question, Sylvain Brouard […]
3 July 2020

When Economists Study Politics in Developing Countries

Better understanding the state of political systems – particularly in developing countries – via methods used by economists does not appear to be commonplace. However, […]