Hidden features: The Tools that Firms Use to Manipulate Consumers on Digital Platforms and Beyond

An article published by the New York Times 4 years ago showed how Uber used psychological manipulations to influence drivers' behaviour 1. To incentivize drivers to work longer hours, Uber takes advantage of people's obsession with "goal pursuit" by letting them know how close they are to hitting their earning goal when they try to …

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Un bouddha aux traits helléniques

Lorsque l’on se balade dans le jardin des plantes, à Toulouse, on a le loisir d’admirer des statues, comme la reproduction de Chloris caressée par Zéphyr, dont le style n’est pas sans rappeler celui des sculptures grecques, né au Vème et IVème siècle avant Jésus-Christ.Ce qui est moins évident cependant, c’est que c’est aussi ce style …

Luise Eisfeld testimony

What are your past studies and professions? I was interested in societal and economic questions after High School, so I began my studies with a Sociology major and Economics minor at the University of Mannheim. I quickly realized that I actually loved the quantitative classes I had taken, so I switched to studying only Econ …

Jump-starting America by Jonathan Gruber and Simon Johnson

It has become well known that the United States is a divided nation: politically with an increasing polarization, economically with more and more inequalities between poor and rich individuals, and geographically with production concentrated in a few major cities. Starting from this observation, two MIT economists, Jonathan Gruber and Simon Johnson, come up with an …

ON CAMPUS INVESTIGATION : TSE students’ mental health

This year, The TSEconomist had the idea to create a new format of articles : the “On Campus Investigations”. These articles will focus on issues that are specific to the TSE community. We will interview students and staff members, conduct surveys about the issues we feel are the most pressing on our campus. The first …