2023-08-20 17:06:41
Daniel Cohen, during a symposium at the Ministry of Finance, in Paris, January 23, 2015. CHARLES PLATIAU / REUTERS
Economist Daniel Cohen, sovereign debt specialist, professor at the Ecole Normale Supérieure and founding member of the Paris School of Economics died on Sunday August 20 in Paris, learned The world. He was 70 years old. Winner of the economics book prize in 2000 and 2012, he was also a member of the supervisory board of the Monde from 2010 to 2021, where he had published numerous analyses.
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“We were all students of Daniel Cohen, I have always been very impressed by his teaching skills and his multidisciplinary approach”confided the economist Gabriel Zucman to the Mondein 2019, as part of an article on French economists, of which Mr. Cohen has been one of the figures since the end of the 1990s. For Daniel Cohen and his disciples of the study of French-style economics , the human cannot be considered as a Homo economicus and its behavior must be analyzed with the contribution of all the social sciences.
Former adviser to the Lazard bank, columnist at The Obsmember between 1997 and 2012 of the Council for Economic Analysis, he has published numerous books, including Wealth of the world, poverty of nations (Flammarion, 1997), Homo Economicus, (Lost) Prophet of New Times (lbin Michel, 2012), or even Homo numericus. The coming “civilization” (Albin Michel, 2022).
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