<- Hard dé e: 0.0276780128479 sec -> Delivery of famous Nobel vintage 2014, was completed on Monday with the coveted saving price. After physics, chemistry, literature or the Nobel Peace Prize, the Swedish Academy awarded the French economist Jean Tirole, 61, for his work on the industrial economy.
This researcher at the University of Toulouse is honored for his “analysis of market power and regulation,” announced the jury in a statement. Presented by the Nobel Committee as “one of the most influential economists of our time”, he has “cleared the way to understand and regulate industries with some important business.”
This is polytechnicien the third French economist to receive the prestigious award. He succeeds Maurice Allais (1988) and Gerard Debreu (1983). This is the 50th French Nobel prize in all categories.
The Nobel Prize “is going to change anything for me. What I like are the forms of research in which I live and the friends I make rubs and then do my research with my students. I hope I’m not going to change, “said Jean Tirole.
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A global university reference
The son of a doctor and a mother teacher letters, he goes first to mathematics, entered the Ecole Polytechnique, and discovers the economy late in life, at age 21. Engineer Roads and Bridges, he then chooses to do a PhD in economics in the United States, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He also taught both in Paris and in most major American universities: Harvard, Princeton, Stanford
This native of Troyes (Aube) did not wait for the announcement from Stockholm to benefit. a global reputation: his resume fills 24 pages of awards, publications and awards of all kinds (prices Claude Levi-Strauss in 2010, prize for the best young European Economist 1993). Jean Tirole is particularly one of only two economists in France to be awarded a gold medal of the CNRS.
His books (including “Theory of Industrial Organization”, “Game Theory.” ..), translated into several languages, are references in universities worldwide.
It is not so far out of touch with public life. He has made more dramatic proposals to the Council of Economic Analysis (CAE), an advisory body to the Prime Minister on the job market.
Jean Tirole and invited in 2003 to reform thoroughly the job market in France, in a liberal direction, for example by creating a “single employment contract” abolishing the distinction CDI / CDD. Or introducing a tax on layoffs in exchange for relief of charges and regulatory simplification for businesses.
“The French employment market is pretty catastrophic,” said the new Nobel Prize at a press conference in Toulouse. “I think we have to change things if we want to give a future to our children,” he added, to Jean-Jacques Laffont, Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) Foundation, a research center that he directs.
“For 30 years, 40 years, there has unemployment and youth, they are offered in CSD overwhelmingly because companies are too afraid to give CDI. So it was a completely absurd situation is that by protecting employees too, it only protects at all. It is no coincidence that all of southern Europe, which has exactly the same institutions of the labor market, ended up with a lot of unemployment while northern Europe, Scandinavia, for example, which has a different system, are left with little unemployment, “said he believed in a crowded room of journalists.
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City among the favorites of the Nobel for many years
Researcher remained loyal to the University of Toulouse since 1990, after returning from the American University MIT, Jean Tirole was mentioned among the favorites Nobel recent years. Receive the award, and the award of 8 million Swedish kronor (about 878,000 euros) Dec. 10 in Stockholm.
The Nobel Prize in economics, officially called the “price of the Bank of Sweden in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel “is the only one not mentioned in the will of the Swedish inventor of dynamite. It was established in 1968 by the Swedish central bank, and awarded for the first time in 1969.
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