2023-08-20 19:09:36
On social networks, many economists and political figures want to pay tribute to “a fabulous man” or a “brilliant professor”. The economist Daniel Cohen died this Sunday August 20 in Paris announce our colleagues of the world, of which he was a member of the supervisory board from 2010 to 2021. He was 70 years old. The Albin Michel publishing house subsequently confirmed this information.
Known to the general public for his interventions in the media, this specialist in sovereign debt, born in 1953 in Tunis, was notably president of the Paris School of Economics, an internationally recognized university center for economic research. Albin Michel expressed his “tremendous sadness” to AFP.
Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne learned “with sadness of the disappearance of Daniel Cohen, a great researcher and brilliant economist. His vision of the French economy and the great revolutions, in particular digital, will be missed in the public debate, ”she wrote on X, formerly Twitter.
It is with sadness that I learn of the disappearance of Daniel Cohen, a great researcher and brilliant economist.
His vision of the French economy and the great revolutions, especially digital, will be missed in the public debate. My thoughts are with his family, colleagues and students. pic.twitter.com/zZA7cjUN9B— Élisabeth BORNE (@Elisabeth_Borne) August 20, 2023
This sovereign debt specialist was notably a professor of economics at the École Normale Supérieure on rue d’Ulm (mathematics section) but also one of the founders of the Paris School of Economics, of which he was still Chairman of the Board of Directors.
In addition to the rank of Officer of the Legion of Honor (2013) and Commander of the National Order of Merit (2018), he was awarded the economics book prize in 2000 for his book “Our modern times” ( Flammarion, 2008) and in 2012 for “Homo Economicus, (lost) prophet of new times” (Albin Michel, 2012).
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