Pierre-Yves Geoffard
Pierre-Yves Geoffard is an economist. A researcher at CNRS – Centre national de la recherche scientifique (French National Centre for Scientific Research), he is also a professor at the Paris School of Economics.
National governments and international organisations are worried about the human and economic impact of the spread of the H1N1 virus. However, it is not the pandemic itself that is most likely to disrupt whole societies, but individual behaviours engendered by the ensuing panic, explains economist Pierre-Yves Geoffard.