Jean Tirole

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Jean Tirole, the 2014 Nobel laureate in economics, is Honorary Chairman of the Toulouse School of Economics and Chairman of the Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse. His most recent book is Economics for the Common Good.

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Keep Politics Out of Europe’s Competition Decisions
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Keep Politics Out of Europe’s Competition Decisions

Mar 4, 2019 Patrick Rey & Jean Tirole warn that current Franco-German proposals risk undermining the EU's independent anti-trust authorities.

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Macron’s Great Gamble
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Macron’s Great Gamble

Jan 21, 2019 Jean Tirole weighs the risks and potential rewards of the French president’s response to the “yellow vest” movement.

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Regulating the Disrupters
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Regulating the Disrupters

Jan 9, 2019 Jean Tirole offers a blueprint for rethinking antitrust policies, labor laws, and taxation in the age of Big Tech.

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Whither Central Banking?

Lawrence H. Summers & Anna Stansbury

In an environment of secular stagnation in the developed economies, central bankers’ ingenuity in loosening monetary policy is exactly what is not needed. What is needed are admissions of impotence, in order to spur efforts by governments to promote demand through fiscal policies and other means.

The Unsustainability of Inequality

James K. Galbraith

By treating inequality exclusively as a microeconomic issue, economists have been missing the point for decades. There is ample evidence to show that income disparities within countries have more to do with global financial forces than with local labor-market conditions.