Columns - Polytechnique Insights

Earthquakes: a force of nature that can be tamed?

Jean-François Semblat, Head of mechanics and energy department at ENSTA Paris (IP Paris)

“Joe Biden has the power to impose his tax policy on the rest of the world”

Pierre Boyer, Professor of Economics at École polytechnique – CREST (IP Paris)

“Literature is standing its ground against screens”

Antoine Compagnon, Professor of French Literature and Author

Intelligent fertilisers reduce agricultural pollution

Graeme Nicol, CNRS Research director in soil microbial ecology at Ecole Centrale de Lyon

Will the pandemic trap economies in secular stagnation?

Marie-Hélène Duprat, Senior Advisor to the Chief Economist at Société Générale

“The climate challenge is an opportunity for capitalism”

Pierre Dockès, Honorary Professor of Economic History at the University of Lyon 2

π Society π Health and biotech

Covid-19: why there will be no baby boom

Sander Wagner, Research Associate at the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science at Oxford University and an Affiliated Researcher at ENSAE/CREST (IP Paris), Felix Tropf, Assistant Professor in Social Science Genetics at CREST/ENSAE (IP Paris)

“Climate change happens 20% faster in the Mediterranean”

Philippe Drobinski, CNRS Research Director at the Dynamic Meteorology Laboratory (LMD*) and Professor at Ecole Polytechnique (IP Paris)

Covid-19: decline in immigration will reinforce deterioration of our economy

Hippolyte d’Albis, CNRS Research Director and Professor at Paris School of Economics

Beyond security: the future of biometrics is behaviour

Bernadette Dorizzi, Emeritus Professor at Télécom SudParis