DESCRIPTION – Natalie Mathieu-Ball, an economics professor and researcher in the US, sheds light on the additional costs of being overweight, which affects 47% of French people.
He is an experienced expert on tax reform and its impact on individual behavior and the macro-economic scale. with an essay entitled The economics of obesity (Éditions La Découverte), this professor and researcher who lived for twenty years in the United States (University of Vermont) wanted to engage in an important topic across the Atlantic that is of increasing importance in France. Thus, his research gradually shifted to “reforms that use taxation to respond to the challenges posed by this health problem.” Because Natalie Mathieu-Ball is convinced that adequate public policies can help curb the effects of obesity. A reflection he shares here on seven main themes.
A global scourge
Global obesity has tripled in forty years, and no continent is spared. But in the collective imagination, the USA has become the face of this scourge: in fact, 73% of the American population is overweight…
Source: Le Figaro
