Philippe Aghion
Biography
Philippe Aghion is a Professor of Economics at the Collège de France and the London School of Economics, and a Fellow of the Econometric Society and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
His research focuses on the economics of growth. With Peter Howitt, he pioneered the Schumpeterian Growth paradigm, which was subsequently used to analyse the design of growth policies and the role of the state in the growth process. Much of this work is summarised in their joint books Endogenous Growth Theory (MIT Press, 1997) and The Economics of Growth (MIT Press, 2008); in Professor Aghion’s book with Rachel Griffith on Competition and Growth (MIT Press, 2005); and in his survey “What Do We Learn from Schumpeterian Growth Theory?” (jointly with U. Akcigit and P. Howitt). In 2001 he received the Yrjö Jahnsson Award for the best European economist under the age of 45, and in 2009 he received the John Von Neumann Award.