Philippe Aghion

Professeur au Collège de France, à l'INSEAD et la LSE

Domaine d'expertise

Concurrence
Destruction créatrice
Croissance
Changement technologique

Biographie

Philippe is Professor at the Collège de France, INSEAD, and the London School of Economics.

His work explores how innovation, competition, and creative destruction shape economic growth, and how institutions and public policy can support this process. Together with Peter Howitt, he developed the Schumpeterian growth paradigm, now central to the study of innovation-led growth and the role of the state in the growth process.

After fifteen years as Professor of Economics at Harvard University, he joined the Collège de France in 2015, where he holds the Chair of Economics of Institutions, Innovation and Growth, now home to the Farhi Innovation Lab.

He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques. In 2025, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics, jointly with Joel Mokyr and Peter Howitt, for their work on innovation-driven growth.

Dernières publications

- Innovation
- Working Paper
Resetting the Innovation Clock: Endogenous Growth through Technological Turnover

Évaluer le rôle de la technologie et d'une gouvernance fondée sur les données dans la création d'environnements urbains plus agréables à vivre et plus durables.
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22 july 2025
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- Croissance
- Innovation
- Publication
A Theory of Falling Growth and Rising Rents

Explorer des stratégies visant à garantir un accès équitable à une éducation numérique de qualité, au-delà des clivages socio-économiques.
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20 february 2023
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- Croissance
- Publication
Monetary Policy, Product Market Competition and Growth

In this paper we argue that monetary easing fosters growth more in more credit-constrained environments, and the more so the higher the degree of product market competition. Indeed, when competition is low, large rents allow firms to stay on the market and reinvest optimally, no matter how funding conditions change with aggregate conditions. To test […]

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- Inégalités
- Innovation
- Publication
Innovation and Top Income Inequality

In this article, we use cross-state panel and cross-U.S. commuting-zone data to look at the relationship between innovation, top income inequality and social mobility. We find positive correlations between measures of innovation and top income inequality. We also show that the correlations between innovation and broad measures of inequality are not significant. Next, using instrumental […]
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- Philippe Aghion
- Antonin Bergeaud
- Ufuk Akcigit
- Richard Blundell
- David Hémous
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June 2018
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- Working Paper
Social Skills and the Individual Wage Growth of Less Educated Workers

This study employs matched employee-employer data from the UK to highlight the importance of social skills, in particular workers’ ability to work well in a team and communicate effectively with co-workers, as a driver of wage growth for workers with lower formal education. Our findings indicate that in tasks emphasizing social skills, such workers not […]
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