Nobel prize for Economics goes to a Frenchman Jean Tirole. Patrick Modiano wins the prize for litterature.

Le prix Nobel d’économie attribué au Français Jean Tirole

par Baptiste Schweitzer lundi 13 octobre 2014.

Jean Tirole a obtenu le prix Nobel de l’économie © MAXPPP

Le Français Jean Tirole, chercheur à l’université de Toulouse, a reçu ce lundi le prix Nobel d’économie. Il est primé pour ses travaux sur le fonctionnement des marchés. A research professor at the university of Toulouse received, on Monday, the Nobel prize for Economics. He is rewarded for his work on the functionality of markets.

C’est le premier Français depuis 1988 à obtenir le prix Nobel d’économie, habituellement dévolu aux Américains. Le comité Nobel a récompensé ce lundi le prix à Jean Tirole, chercheur à l’université de Toulouse. Selon le jury, Jean Tirole est “l’un des économistes les plus influents de notre époque“, il a notamment “éclairci la manière de comprendre et de réglementer les industries avec quelques entreprises importantes“.

He is the first French national since 1988 to be awarded the Nobel prize for Economics, normally the preserve of Americans. The Nobel committee awarded the prize to Jean Tirole, a research professor in Toulouse university. According to the jury, Jean Tirole is “one of the most influential economists of our time”, and he noted “he has a clear manner of understanding the rules of industry with many big companies”.

Jean Tirole est né à Troyes il y a 61 ans, il a fait Polytechnique, est titulaire d’un doctorat en mathématiques. Il dirige aujourd’hui la Toulouse School of Economics qu’il a cofondée après avoir passé la majeure partie de sa carrière aux Etats Unis, au sein du très prestigieux MIT, l’institut de technologies du Massachussetts.

Jean Tirole was born 61 years ago in Troyes (NE France), a product of a Polytechnic, he took a doctorate in mathematics. Today he leads the  Toulouse School of Economics of which he is a co-founder after spending the most part of his career in the USA, at the prestigieux Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Plus connu à l’étranger qu’en France. Better known overseas than in France.

Jean Tirole a beaucoup travaillé sur la théorie des jeux et de l’information. Ses recherches ont permis de mieux comprendre certaines problématiques d’économie industrielle, comme lorsqu’un État cherche à réguler un secteur comme les télécom, l’énergie ou les chemins de fer. Ses travaux ont aussi aidé à concevoir le droit à la concurrence. Jean Tirole est bien plus connu à l’étranger qu’en France. Certains de ses ouvrages, publiés en anglais, n’ont jamais été traduits en français.
Il est aujourd’hui le troisième français à décrocher le Nobel d’économie après Gérard Debreu en 1983 et Maurice Allais en 1988.

Jean Tirole has worked extensively on the theory of information at play. His studies allowed a better understanding of many industrial economic problems, like those a State looks for to regulate large sectors like telecoms, energy and railways. His work also helped conceive the rights of competition. He is better known outside France. Much of his work has been published in English and not yet translated into French. Today sees the third Frenchman to lift the nobel prize for economics after Gérard Debreu in 1983 and Maurice Allais in 1988.

“Pied-de-nez au French bashing” (Manuel Valls). Thumbing the nose at French bashing.

Dans un communiqué, François Hollande a souligné que ce prix était “une fierté pour la France” adressant à Jean Tirole “ses plus chaleureuses félicitations”. Il “vient mettre en lumière la qualité de la recherche dans notre pays”, se félicite François Hollande pour qui le “rayonnement” de l’Ecole d’économie de Toulouse présidée par Jean Tirole “se voit confirmé”.

In a communiqué, Francois Hollande emphasised that this prize was “a proud moment for France” and directed at Jean Tirole ” the warmest congratulations”. He ” has shone a light of quality on the research capability of our country”, beamed the president for the “influence of the school of economics in Toulouse run by Jean Tirol ” to be confirmed”.

Sur Twitter, le ministre de l’Économie, Emmanuel Macron a également félicité le lauréat.

Un immense bravo à Jean Tirole qui fait la fierté de notre pays et de l’école d’économie française !

De son côté, le Premier ministre Manuel Valls a lui aussi salué sur Twitter ce prix Nobel, ainsi que celui de Patrick Modiano sacré jeudi dernier en littérature. Patrick Modiano won the nobel prize for literature this year 4 Oct 2014.

Après Patrick Modiano, un autre Français au firmament : félicitations à Jean Tirole! Quel pied-de-nez au french bashing !

 

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