🚩 Aghion: the media-adored "anti-Zucman" liberal economist

Published on October 29, 2025

The Bank of Sweden awarded its Nobel Prize in Economics to very orthodox economists. Philippe Aghion, Joel Mokyr, and Peter Howitt are men (there have only been 3 women out of more than 80 laureates), liberals, and one of them is American, like two-thirds of the Nobel laureates in the discipline.

They are not specifically neoliberal according to the dogma of the Chicago school which brings together almost half of the laureates, but they are at least ideologically compatible with this school of thought: Philippe Aghion has been Emmanuel Macron's economic advisor for almost 10 years, after having worked on François Hollande's supply-side policy.

So, who are the good and bad economists? Philippe Aghion, for example, opposes the Zucman tax, much to the delight of the media outlets that invite him on their programs. Analysis and commentary with Cyprien Caddeo, political journalist at L'Humanité.

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