Economic research: what challenges for the next 50 years?
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On January 15th, Université Paris-Dauphine will bring together 10 leading international economists, including four Nobel Prize winners, for a unique morning dedicated to some of the next half-century's major challenges.
What are the major challenges facing our societies in the future? And above all, what insights and contributions can economics provide? Fifty years after its creation, the Université Paris-Dauphine proposes to question economic research to help us understand and think about our world; a discipline which, far from being purely academic, aims to be in direct contact with the major societal issues of our time.
The morning will begin with a series of highlights on major current issues by six renowned scientists, economists but also contributors from other disciplines such as sociology and mathematics:
- Ivar Ekeland, former President of Université Paris-Dauphine: Economic theory versus climate challenges
- Daniel Cohen, École normale supérieure: Understanding the causes and consequences of populism
- Philipe Aghion, Collège de France: The enigmas of growth
- Sir Richard Blundell, University College London: Tax and Social Reform
- Gaël Giraud, Chief Economist at the French Development Agency: Inequality and sustainable development: a common challenge?
- François Héran, Collège de France: How the "migration crisis" has divided Europe
It will then be followed by a round table entitled "Which directions for economic research? " which will bring together for the first time in Paris-Dauphine, four Nobel Prize winners, friends and regular guests of the university:
- Angus Deaton, Princeton University, Nobel Prize in Economics 2015
- Lars Hansen, University of Chicago Nobel Prize in Economics 2013
- James Heckman, University of Chicago Nobel Prize in Economics 2000
- Edmund Phelps, Columbia University, Nobel Prize in Economics 2006
"Through the intervention of these great witnesses of contemporary economic thought and research, the ambition is to shed light on and put into perspective some of the major issues of our time by bringing a rather unique point of view," explains Elyès Jouini, Vice-President of the University of Paris-Dauphine at the initiative of the event.
Events in the morning will be open to the general public: faculty, students, partners and alumni. "The presentations are designed to be accessible to all," explains El Mouhoub Mouhoud, Professor of Economics at Paris-Dauphine and moderator of the morning events, "a time for discussion with the audience will take place at the end of the round table. We thought this morning was a time for reflection, participation and citizenship.