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From: Christopher Baum <kitbaum@icloud.com>
Date: November 21, 2014 at 21:51:56 EST
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Subject: The Economist | French economists: Toulouse v Paris

The Economist
French economists
A tale of two French economists and their rival schools

PARIS

IF PHILOSOPHERS in France are national treasures, economists are dreary specimens. But the discipline has some new star dust. One French economist, Jean Tirole, won the Nobel prize for economics. Another, Thomas Piketty, brought in rock-star quality when his book, “Capital”, became a bestseller in English. When the IMF recently listed the world’s 25 best young economists, seven (including Mr Piketty) were French.



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DIW Research Professor, Department of Macroeconomics, DIW Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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