In 1936, a few years before the start of the Second World War, Theodore Wright published an article claiming that the cost of building an airplane decreased predictably with the cumulative number of p...

Par Maxime Sbaihi & Charles Dennery

Scientists often re-invent things that were long known. Here we review these activities as related to the mechanism of producing power law distributions, originally proposed in 1922 by Yule to explain...

Marine Le Pen has been banned from running for office for five years. The sentence applies the law as written, but it turns her embezzlement conviction into a propaganda coup for her party.

Our recently published research demonstrates how ABMs is 'coming of age' cross three areas: central banking, economics and finance, and AI.

Exclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S.

TRIBUNE. Dans le débat sur la réforme des retraites, la question de la productivité est laissée dans l’ombre. Elle est pourtant essentielle à l’équilibre de notre système de retraite, explique, dans u...

TRIBUNE. Dans le débat sur la réforme des retraites, la question de la productivité est laissée dans l’ombre. Elle est pourtant essentielle à l’équilibre de notre système de retraite, explique, dans u...

Our recently published research demonstrates how ABMs is 'coming of age' cross three areas: central banking, economics and finance, and AI.

The Trump administration is determined to promote fossil fuels, but the economic and technological forces driving solar, wind and other sources are now too powerful to resist.

YouTube video by Canadian Association for the Club of Rome

Les derniers cours, séminaires, colloques et conférences enregistrées à l'Ecole Normale Supérieure (Paris)

L’OTAN peut survivre à un éventuel désengagement des Etats-Unis à condition que les Etats européens restent unis, affirme le chercheur en stratégie et questions militaires. Il détaille, dans un entret...

The compelling economic case for investing in climate-change mitigation and adaptation is not broadly understood, says a new report from BCG.

Are firms adapting to climate change? This paper studies this question by combining geocoded World Bank Enterprise Survey data with spatially granular weather data to .

US decisions can no longer be analysed using assumptions shared across the democratic west

Agent-based modeling (ABM) is a novel computational methodology for representing the behavior of individuals in order to study social phenomena. Its use…

Staff working papers set out research in progress by our staff, with the aim of encouraging comments and debate.

Sergiu Celibidache fondait sa direction musicale sur une approche philosophique et non conventionnelle. Pour lui, « Le but de la musique est la liberté ». Au programme aujourd’hui : Debussy, Rimski-Ko...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

Around the world, progressive parties have come to see tight immigration restrictions as unnecessary, even cruel. What if they’re actually the only way for progressivism to flourish?