Economist Jean-Paul Fitoussi, long head of the OFCE and professor at Sciences Po, died in Paris at the age of 79, AFP learned on Friday from concordant sources.
“
He died last night
,” Xavier Ragot, president of the French Observatory of Economic Conditions (OFCE), which Jean-Paul Fitoussi had chaired for 22 years, from 1989 to 2010, told AFP. Economist Philippe Aghion , who had rubbed shoulders with him at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in the early 1990s when Jean-Paul Fitoussi headed the economic advisory committee there, also confirmed his death to AFP.
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A Keynesian economist
Keynesian economist and professor at Sciences Po, specialist in theories of inflation, unemployment, and the role of economic policies, he had also been a member of the Economic Analysis Council (CAE), a body responsible for advising the government.
Between 2008 and 2009, in the wake of the financial crisis, he participated with twenty-two international experts in the work of the commission chaired by the Nobel Prize in economics Joseph Stiglitz, and launched by Nicolas Sarkozy on the measurement of economic performance.
Jean-Paul Fitoussi has also worked extensively in Italy, where he notably taught at the Luiss University in Rome, and held a seat on the board of directors of Telecom Italia from 2004 to 2017.
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“
I learn with emotion and sadness the news of the disappearance of Professor Jean-Paul Fitoussi, a great economist at Sciences Po. A pillar.
A friend.
To which I owe so much
, ”reacted on Twitter on Friday the former head of the Italian government Enrico Letta.
For his part, the Minister of Public Service Renato Brunetta, hailed "
a companion of so many fights and a friend of Italy
".
The funeral of Jean-Paul Fitoussi will take place Friday afternoon in Levallois-Perret, in the Hauts-de-Seine, near Paris.
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