Keynesian Economist and Professor at Sciences Po, specialist in theories of inflation, unemployment, and the role of economic policies, he presided over the French observatory of economic conditions from 1989 to 2010.
Le Monde with AFP
Jean-Paul Fitoussi died in Paris at 79, announced to the France-Presse agency (AFP) Xavier Ragot, President of the French Observatory of Economic Consumption (OFCE), that the economist had presided over during Twenty-two years, from 1989 to 2010.
The economist Philippe Aghion, who had ever worked with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in the early 1990s, when Jean-Paul Fitoussi led the Advisory Economic Committee, also confirmed his Death to AFP.
Keynesian Economist and Professor at Sciences Po, specializing in the theories of inflation, unemployment, and the role of economic policies, he had also been a member of the Economic Analysis Council (CAE), an agency responsible for advising the government .
“A friend of Italy”
between 2008 and 2009, in the wake of the financial crisis, he participates with twenty-two international experts in the work of the Commission chaired by the Nobel Prize for Economics, Joseph Stiglitz, and launched by Nicolas Sarkozy on the measure of Economic performance.
Jean-Paul Fitoussi also worked a lot in Italy, where he taught in particular to the Free International University of Social Studies (or Luiss, for Libera Università degli Studi Sociali, Italian) of Rome, and had held a seat on the board administration of Telecom Italia from 2004 to 2017.
“I’m learning with emotion and sadness the news of Professor Jean-Paul Fitoussi’s disappearance, a great economist in Sciences Po. A pillar. A friend. To whom I have so much,” reacted on Twitter Friday The former Head of Government Italian Enrico Letta. For its part, the Minister of the Civil Service, Renato Brunetta, has greeted “a companion of so many fights and a friend of Italy”.
The funeral of Mr. Fitoussi will take place Friday afternoon in Levallois-Perret (Hauts-de-Seine) near Paris.