Marc Fleurbaey* and Christy Leppanen This article was originally published in the September 2021 edition of the 5 papers…in 5 minutes. Social welfare analysis, as practiced by economists and related scholars and practitioners, is focused on human beings and derives the value of ecosystems solely from the services such systems provide to the human population. […]
Bénédicte Apouey* This article was originally published in the September 2021 edition of the 5 papers…in 5 minutes. To the traditional view of aging, which emphasizes the decrement of physiologic function, one may be tempted to oppose the notion of “successful aging”. In this approach, popularized by Rowe and Kahn (1987, 1998), successful aging is […]
Bernard Fortin, Nicolas Jacquemet* and Bruce Shearer This article was originally published in the April 2021 edition of the 5 papers…in 5 minutes. Public debate on health care provision often focuses on the capacities of the health system: the number physicians and other care personnel, the number of hospitals and hospital beds, etc. However, for […]
Giorgia Menta, Conchita d’Ambrosio, Andrew Clark*, Simone Ghislandi and Anthony Lepinteur This article was originally published in the April 2021 edition of the 5 papers…in 5 minutes. The prevalence of mental-health disorders has been rising steadily for over two decades, and these are now estimated to affect over 20% of the population in the UK […]
Discover this new book, published last December (Editions de l’Autreface) by André Masson, PSE Emeritus Professor, Director of Research Emeritus at the CNRS and Director of Studies at the EHESS. This article was published in the PSE news – Visit the dedicated page « Nos sociétés du vieillissement entre guerre et paix – Plaidoyer pour […]
The article is taken from the April 2021 PSE newsletter. https://www.parisschoolofeconomics.eu/en/la-lettre-pse-ecole-d-economie-de-paris/n42-newsletter-pse-april-2021 Marc Fleurbaey – Professeur titulaire d’une chaire à PSE, Directeur de recherche au CNRS. Accéder à son site personnel ou à son compte Twitter Les questions de sondage sur le bien-être de chacun, telles que les questions sur le bonheur et la satisfaction dans la vie, sont de plus […]