Georges Menahem

Georges Menahem (PhD. Paris10 University) is a French sociologist and economist whose work employs methods drawn from economics, sociology and statistics. He is a Research Director in the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and a senior research fellow in the Institute for Research and Information in Health Economics (IRDES), a French research institute specializing in health economics and health statistics.

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Scientific biography

Georges Menahem began his university training at Grenoble University (France) where he graduated in mathematics and physics. After having performed his first experiments in the field of astrophysics (in Jodrell Bank Observatory) and solid-state physics (in Grenoble University), his observations in social sciences led him to write his first book (1976) on the relationships between science and the military.[1] In a subsequent shift in intellectual pursuits toward the social sciences, his research focused on the sociology of the labour knowledge and of the division of labour,[2] on the sociology of the family, with the creation of a new typology of family organisation[3] and an analysis of The Economic Rationales Within the Family, a topic which became the title of his PhD in Economics.[4]

In the 1990s, as a sociologist searching for root causes of family behaviours, he discovered significant correlation between risky behaviours, vulnerability to illness and grave childhood traumatic events, findings that he explored in greater depth, first with data from INSEE,[5] then with IRDES data.[6] As an economist, he tried also to explain these findings with concepts from health economics and risk economics.[7] Since 2003 he has focused on measuring social well-being by building economic security indices.[8][9]

Activities

Since 1999 Menahem has been a member of the Scientific Advisory Council of ATTAC. Recently he published an analysis of the European process of militarization through its relationships with European foreign policy.[10] In August 2008, Menahem directed a workshop on the European militarization in the Attac European Summer University of Saarbrücken.[11]

Works

Recent works

Other works

References

  1. ^ La science et le militaire, Éditions du Seuil, Paris, 1976
  2. ^ Les savoirs ouvriers, With Yves Lescot et Patrick Pharo, Éditions ACT, 1980, Paris
  3. ^ "Les mutations de la famille et les modes de reproduction de la force de travail", L'homme et la société, 1979, n° 51, Paris
  4. ^ Paris X University, 1982
  5. ^ "Incidents de paiement et trajectoires personnelles des débiteurs", Revue d'économie financière, n° 4, 1990, Paris and "Troubles de santé à l'âge adulte et difficultés familiales durant l'enfance", Population, 4, 1992, INED, Paris
  6. ^ Problèmes de l'enfance, statut social et santé des adultes, IRDES, 1994, Paris
  7. ^ "Recours aux soins des adultes et mode de gestion du risque", Économie et Prévision, N°129-130 (3-4), 1997, Paris
  8. ^ « The decommodified security ratio: A tool for assessing European social protection systems »
  9. ^ International Social Security Review, Volume 60, Issue 4, page 69-103, Genève, October–December 2007
  10. ^ cf. “A militarized European Union” in Europe in the world, book edited by Trevor Evans
  11. ^ See European Summer University ”The workshop proposes some materials in order to analyse the present European defence policy. The analysis of the implications of the Treaty of Lisbon for the militarization of the European Union is done with reference to the story of Europe's militarization and to an analysis of the European Union’s aim: to play a larger role on the international stage”.