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Interview | Measuring well-being beyond GDP | Claudia Senik

Although very useful and important, gross domestic product (GDP) is not enough to measure people’s well-being. While reflecting all market transactions, certain welfare externalities are not taken into account in its assessment. In this video, (...)

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Editorial | Going beyond GDP: what for and how? | Marc Fleurbaey

What new indicators should be used to measure economic performance and social progress beyond the limits of gross domestic product (GDP)*? In this editorial, Marc Fleurbaey identifies four issues that could improve this measurement: quality of (...)

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Workshop | Long-Run Dynamics in Economics 2024

The Long-Run Dynamics in Economics (LORDE) 2024 Workshop will take place at Grenoble (France) on March 20th-22nd, 2024. Go to the dedicated website

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Macroeconomic Risk Chair | Newsletter #13

The Macroeconomic Risk Chair has been launched in June 2018. Held by the Paris School of Economics, it is financed by the SCOR Foundation for Science. Under the scientific leadership of Gilles Saint-Paul (PSE, ENS - PSL) and the executive (...)

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Paris-London Public Economics Conference | December 7-8

The Paris School of Economics is glad to invite you to the Paris-London Public Economics conference, an annual two-day conference organised in partnership with Sciences Po, the London School of Economics (LSE), University College London (UCL), (...)

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“Économie de l’éducation” | Luc Behaghel, Julien Grenet and Marc Gurgand

In their latest book, Luc Behaghel, Julien Grenet and Marc Gurgand take a look at the economics of education. Économie de l’éducation Go to the page dedicated to the book on the website of Éditions La Découverte (Repères collection). Extract from (...)

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Workshop | Cities and the Environment | January 12, 2024

The Paris School of Economics is glad to invite you to the workshop “Cities and the Environment” of the Opening Economics Chair. Date: January, 12nd 2024 ; from 9:15am to 12:05pm Place: Paris School of Economics and Zoom 48 bd Jourdan, 75014 (...)

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Budget Conference 2024 | November 27

As every year, on the occasion of the examination in Parliament of the bills of finance and financing of the social security for 2024, the Institut des politiques publiques (IPP) and the Macroeconomics Observatory of the Centre pour la recherche (...)

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Workshop | Getting out of RSA and long-term unemployment | November 28

The Paris School of Economics is glad to invite you to the “Getting out of RSA and long-term unemployment” workshop organized by the Labor Chair in partnership with the Centre pour la recherche économique et ses applications (Cepremap), the (...)

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Discover the work of Nobel prize winners D. Card, J. Angrist and G. Imbens in video

The 2021 Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded to David Card (University of California, Berkeley) for his work on the labor market, and to Joshua Angrist (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and Guido Imbens (Stanford Graduate School of (...)

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