Philippe Aghion

Phillipe Aghion
Aghion at Boston University in February 2015
Born
Philippe Mario Aghion

(1956-08-17) 17 August 1956
Known forAghion–Howitt model
Endogenous growth theory
Creative destruction
RelativesGaby Aghion (mother)
Academic background
EducationÉcole normale supérieure de Cachan (BA)
Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University (DEA, D3C)
Harvard University (PhD)
Academic work
DisciplineInnovation
Economic growth
Organisations
Contract theory
School or traditionNeo-Schumpeterian economics
InstitutionsCollège de France
INSEAD
London School of Economics
Harvard University
University College London
Nuffield College, Oxford
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
AwardsBBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2019)
Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences (2025)

Philippe Mario Aghion FBA (French: [filip aɡjɔ̃]; born 17 August 1956) is a French economist who is Chair of Economics of Institutions, Innovation and Growth professor at the Collège de France, Kurt Björklund Chaired Professor in Innovation and Growth at INSEAD, and Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics.

Aghion and Peter Howitt are known for the Aghion–Howitt model. For this work, they shared half of the 2025 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences "for the theory of sustained growth through creative destruction".