In the cafe downstairs of his house in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, they call him “Professor”, we know his favorite table and his taste in tea. Philippe Aghion, 69, holder of the chair of “institutional economics, innovation and growth” at the Collège de France, returned to his home country after a long stay in the United States, experiencing a change in attitude since he received, along with two colleagues (his co-author, Canadian Peter Howitt, and American-Israeli economic historian Joel Mokyr), the Nobel Prize in economics a month ago. These awards do not detract from the specialist presence of Schumpeter and his creative destruction in public debate. For Release (and for interested neighboring tables), he returns to the main points that animate economic discussions.
The deputies just approved on Wednesday 12 November the suspension of the pension reform. Do you welcome this vote?
