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Jean-Paul Fitoussi

Jean-Paul Fitoussi is Professor of economics at Sciences-po and President of OFCE (Sciences-po Center for Economic Research, Paris).

Commentaries by Jean-Paul Fitoussi

  • Newsart for A Modest Proposal for the G-20

    A Modest Proposal for the G-20

    BEIJING – In March, at a meeting in Beijing organized by Columbia University’s Initiative for Policy Dialogue and China’s Central University…

  • Newsart for The Revolt of the Meritocrats

    The Revolt of the Meritocrats

    PARIS – The bailout of the financial system was a bizarre moment in economic history, for it benefited those who benefited most from the mar…

  • The End of (Economic) History?

    PARIS -- Some academic works, for reasons that are at least partly obscure, leave a persistent trace in intellectual history. Such i…

  • Ghettoizing Identity

    PARIS – Once, as I picked up the Nobel laureate economist Amartya Sen at his hotel, the receptionist asked me if I was his driver. After hes…

  • The Fog of Finance

    Military leaders talk about the “fog of war” – the condition of fundamental uncertainty that marks combat. The recent credit and liquidity c…

  • Children of Frenchmen

    One puzzling and often overlooked feature of the France that elected Nicolas Sarkozy as its new president, and that is now poised to give hi…

  • Energizing Europe

    In France’s pre-presidential electoral campaign, European affairs are mentioned or whispered, but almost never debated. France is mostly con…

  • Edmund Phelps’s Journey

    The winner of this year’s Nobel prize for economics, Edmund Phelps, is a giant in the field. His contributions have been, and remain, so imp…

  • The Environment of the Economy

    No economy is a closed, autonomous universe, governed by rules independent from law, morals, and politics. Indeed, the most interesting econ…

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