Daniel Cohen (16 June 1953 – 20 August 2023) was a prominent French economist, a co-founder and professor at the
Paris School of Economics
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, as well as a senior advisor to the bank
Lazard.
Cohen was born in
Tunis
''Tounsi'' french: Tunisois
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, Tunisia, on 16 June 1953,
and died in
Paris
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on 20 August 2023, at the age of 70.
Works
*''Monnaie, Richesse et Dette des Nations'', Editions du CNRS, 1987.
*''Private Lending to Sovereign States'', MIT Press, 1991.
*''Les infortunes de la Prospérité'', Paris: Julliard, 1994. (translation MIT Press).
*''Richesse du monde, pauvretés des nations'', Flammarion, 1997 (translation MIT Press).
*''Nos Temps Modernes'', Flammarion, 2000 (traduction MIT Press, et en 8 autres langues).
*''La mondialisation et ses ennemis'', 2004, Paris, Grasset (translation MIT Press).
*''Trois leçons sur la société post-industrielle'', Sept 2006, Paris, Seuil. (Spanish translation: ''Tres lecciones sobre la sociedad postindustrial'', Buenos Aires/Madrid, Katz editores S.A, 2007, )
*''27 Questions d'économie contemporaine'' (Tome 1), under the direction of
Philippe Askenazy and Daniel Cohen 2008
*''La Prospérité du vice, Une introduction (inquiète) à l'économie'' 2009
*''16 nouvelles questions d'économie contemporaine'' (Tome 2), with Philippe Askenazy and Daniel Cohen 2010
*''Le monde est clos et le desir infini '', Paris: Albin Michel, 2015; (English translation: )
Awards and distinctions
* Laureat of the Association française de sciences économiques (1987)
*
American Express
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''Special Merit Award'' (1987)
* ''
Le Nouvel Économiste'' "Economist of the Year" (1997)
* Prix
Léon Faucher
Léonard Joseph (Léon) Faucher (; 8 September 1803 – 14 December 1854) was a French politician and economist.
Biography
Faucher was born at Limoges, Haute-Vienne. When he was nine years old the family moved to Toulouse, where the boy was se ...
from the
Académie des sciences morales et politiques (2000)
* Prix du Livre d’économie (2000)
* Laureat du prix européen (2000)
* Prix Synapsis for the book ''Mutation et travail'' (2000)
*
Legion of Honour
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– Knight (11 April 2001)
* ''Brussels Lectures in Economics'' (2003)
References
External links
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1953 births
2023 deaths
Tunisian Jews
French economists
École Normale Supérieure alumni
Paris Nanterre University alumni
Academic staff of Pantheon-Sorbonne University
Officers of the Legion of Honour
Commanders of the Ordre national du Mérite
People from Tunis
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