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2023 Annual Report

An overview of IAST annual activities and scientific productions

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Events

11th Toulouse Economics and Biology Workshop

On June 3-4, TSE Building

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Research

Book: A Man Among Other Men

written by Jordanna Matlon

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2024: Ultimate Election Year?

Read text highlighting Sebastian Thieme’s working papers

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Conference of the Société Francophone de Primatologie

On October 15-18, TSE Building, conference in french

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Podcast: Should there be a compulsory retirement age for society's leaders?

Season 3, Episode 10

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Paul Seabright's The Divine Economy

The Divine Economy is a novel economic interpretation of how religions have become so powerful in the modern world.

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Coming up soon, in Toulouse or further afield

Research Team: Political Economy

Discover Political Economy Research Team at IAST