The cost of living in pandemic times

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Children in Paris, on their return from school. Photo dated September 11, 1970. MOUDON / AFP

By: Valérie Nivelon

No one will forget the Covid-19 epidemic, and yet everyone has forgotten the 1969 Hong Kong flu, although these two pandemics are comparable in terms of the number of victims. What happened and why our relationship to death changed? "This is the whole political question of the price of life," explains Ariel Colonomos, our guest to the sound of testimonies on the memory of 1969, collected by Clementine Méténier. 

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To read: "  A price for life - The political challenge of fair measurement  ", by Ariel Colonomos, research director at CERI in Political Science, published by Presses Universitaires de France.

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