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Philippe Aghion

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French economist

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Born
1956
Works
83

Top works

  • FORMAL AND REAL AUTHORITY IN ORGANIZATIONS
  • The economics of bankruptcy reform
  • Education, Academia and Growth
  • Endogenous Growth Theory
  • Economics of Growth

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Type
Person
Gender
Female
Origin
France
Active from
1905

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5 total works indexed

  1. STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner

    · 2012 · cited 49,748x

  2. The ERA5 global reanalysis

    · 2020 · cited 22,817x

  3. Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome

    · 2001 · cited 18,520x

  4. The FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship

    · 2016 · cited 13,882x

  5. Light Propagation with Phase Discontinuities: Generalized Laws of Reflection and Refraction

    · 2011 · cited 9,464x

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Born
Philippe Mario Aghion , ( 1956-08-17 ) 17 August 1956 (age 69) , Paris , France
Known for
Aghion–Howitt model , Endogenous growth theory , Creative destruction
Relatives
Gaby Aghion (mother)
Education
École normale supérieure de Cachan ( BA ), Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University ( DEA , D3C ), Harvard University ( PhD )
Discipline
Innovation , Economic growth , Organisations , Contract theory
School or tradition
Neo-Schumpeterian economics
Institutions
Collège de France , INSEAD , London School of Economics , Harvard University , University College London , Nuffield College, Oxford , Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Awards
BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2019), Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences (2025)

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Philippe Mario Aghion FBA ( French: [filip aɡjɔ̃]; born 17 August 1956) is a French economist who is Chair of Economics of Institutions, Innovation and Growth professor at the Collège de France, Kurt Björklund Chaired Professor in Innovation and Growth at INSEAD, and Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics.

Aghion and Peter Howitt are known for the Aghion–Howitt model. For this work, they shared half of the 2025 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences "for the theory of sustained growth through creative destruction".

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