US EditionFormer Advisor to Macron, Specialist in innovation... Who Is Philippe Aghion, Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics 2025
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PORTRAIT - He is the author of a powerful theory of innovation, which has profoundly influenced his discipline. Candidate Macron's economic advisor in 2017 was still working very recently with Gabriel Zucman.
Professor at the Collège de France, past Harvard, MIT and Oxford, this Parisian is rewarded with the economist Peter Howitt for their work on the impact of new technologies on economic growth.
The Nobel Prize for Economics 2025, or more precisely the "Bank of Sweden Prize in Economics", was awarded on Monday 13 October to a trio of researchers: Joel Mokyr, Peter Howitt and Philippe Aghion. They formalized the idea that innovation is a driver of economic growth.
This was announced this Monday by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. In a statement, they explained that “technology advances rapidly and affects us all, with new products and production methods that replace the old ones in an endless cycle. This is the basis of sustained economic growth, which translates into a better quality of life, health and well-being for people all over the world.” “However, this was not always the case. Quite the con…
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