“A month ago, I decided to stop the hot showers at the end of the day. “What relationship with the economy?”, you will say to me. The report is my electricity bill. Like me, you have seen that prices are jumping (…). Inflation is not an abstract concept. At the moment, we are living it…”
It is with these words that the first podcast “Generation economy” opens, from the Circle of economists, which will be accessible this Monday.
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In this first opus, devoted to inflation, therefore, it is Éric Monnet - best young economist 2022, director of studies at EHESS and professor at the Paris School of Economics - who takes the floor.
In a fluid and educational discussion with the narrator, but also with Agathe, a young consultant in a consulting firm, we hear her explain the concepts, come back to
"the three quite different causes"
of inflation, or even detail them.
the concrete consequences.
Eighteen instructive minutes.
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Environment, employment, health… Eleven other podcasts - produced by Louie Creative - will follow, every fortnight.
A winner or nominee of the prize for the best young economist (with names as prestigious as Isabelle Méjean, Stefanie Stantcheva or even Camille Landais) will decipher in his own way
"the economic subjects which agitate the debates of society and show that the economy affects the areas of daily life”
, specifies the Circle of economists.
The idea is to take questions that young people ask themselves as a starting point.
All themes will be treated
"from an economic, ethical and philosophical angle",
we promise.