Philippe Aghion

Professor · Collège de France, INSEAD · company speakers →

Philippe Aghion is Professor at the Collège de France and INSEAD, Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics and Fellow of the Econometric Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His research focuses on the economics of growth. With Peter Howitt, he is the originator of the Schumpeterian growth paradigm, which has subsequently been used to analyze the design of growth policies and the role of the state in the growth process. In 2001, Philippe Aghion was awarded the Yrjo Jahnsson Prize for the best European economist under 45, in 2009 he received the John Von Neumann Prize, and in March 2020 he shared the BBVA "Frontier of Knowledge Award" with Peter Howitt for having "developed a theory of economic growth based on the innovation that emerges from the process of creative destruction". More recently, Philippe Aghion has published a new book entitled " The Power of Creative Destruction " (Odile Jacob, Harvard University Press) in collaboration with C. Antonin and S. Bunel. On October 13, 2025, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded him the Nobel Prize in Economics (the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in memory of Alfred Nobel), along with researchers Joel Mokyr and Peter Howitt, for their work on the impact of new technologies on economic growth

Is this you? Claim this profile →