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State loan to CAC 40 companies, Pandora Papers and the impoverishment of the single mother: the deviances of an amoral contemporary welfare

by Deborah Liebart , and Marco Manca . This article can be cited by the DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6647214 Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0   "Hardship" by bafdias is licensed under CC BY 2.0 It's bad to be women in a State that substitutes welfare with resilience... According to the latest france Stratégie report, of October 2021, the tax reform implemented in recent years has not had the expected results[1]. There is no measurable effect of the trickle-down theory... in fact, there is an enrichment of the richest and a pauperization of the poorest.   The invalidity of this theory was already noted in the past: the IMF acknowledged in 2015 that this theory was not based on any objective scientific fact[2]. It has been observed on several occasions that the more tax allowances are introduced for the wealthiest, the richer they become without anything benefiting the most modest, even as the negative impact of inequality is now wide...

Leveraging Machine Learning for efficient agent-based simulations & application on biomedical cases

 Our very own Taghi Aliyev  has presented about the state of the art and ideas for the future in the application of Machine Learning to optimize and accelerate agent based simulations, at the BioDynaMo workshop 2021 In case you have missed his lecture, here is the recording:

The not so invisible hand : raise, fall and current resuscitation efforts of antitrust norms

By Deborah Liebart and Marco Manca .  Licensed under the CreativeCommons BY-NC-SA 4.0  DOI:  10.5281/zenodo.5111425 While public debts have increased drastically with the health crisis 1 , states are seeking to broaden their tax bases. It is in this context that the debate on antitrust laws and GAFAs is reopening in the United States but also in Europe through the national and supranational laws of the OECD 2 . The issue of antitrust and GAFAs has been debated at the G20 3 . Are unicorns turning into hydras? Could a regulatory policy re-stabilise the system?   " Giving hands " by afagen is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0   If the concept of the Smithian invisible hand as it is used today claims to naturally, spontaneously, settle monopolies, we have long discovered that without antitrust legislation, there is no natural equilibrium tending to fairly regulate the market. Competition is necessary for the economy to run smoothly in order to defend the interests of...