Introducing myself

Coming to economics through unusual paths, (civil serant at corps des Ponts et Chaussées), I started my career as

• Research Fellow at CERMAP (Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Mathématiques Appliquées à la Planification), then at CEPREMAP (Centre d'Etudes Prospectives et de Recherches en Economie Mathématique Appliqueé à la Planification).

and did research successively as

•   "Chargé", "Maître", Director of research, at CNRS, (Centre national de la recherche scientifique). (see [career])

also volunteering for teaching,

• either temporarily in France in several "Grandes Ecoles" and Parisian Universities.
• or elsewhere, for example as « Lent term professor », at the London School of Economics and for short visits in North American Universities (Pennsylvannie, Harvard,..)
• and more permanently at EHESS, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, where I am Directeur d'études (part time) since 1979.(voir [career]) .
• At Collège de France, teaching has become my first duty. The opening lecture of the chair is available on video-tape (get the video-tape). It has been reproduced in the journal Revue d'Économie Politique, (2002) under the title "The state and the market : erudite constructions and spontaneous wisdom" ("L'Etat et le marché : constructions savantes et pensée spontanée"), (119), 6, Nov-Dec. 2002, p. 799-814.

Research animation, according to my country terminology, took a significant part of my time. For example :

• co-foundation of Delta, with François Bourguignon, and acting director from 1991 to 2000.
•  appointment by François Furet, then president of EHESS, as head of the doctoral group Analyse et Politique Economique, from 1981 à 1991. (see [responsibilities])

Policy oriented advice is another chapter of activities : a membership of Conseil d'Analyse Economique is its last avatar (see [career])
 

 I guess it is an honour (broadly speaking) to have been a member of the editorial board of several of high quality journals, or a council member of learned societies, as for example being :

• Co-editor of Econometrica from 1984 to 1989.
• President of the European Economic Association, 1994, President of the Econometric Society, 1996, of the Association Française de Science Economique (2003).

Add to this chapter :

• CNRS, Silver medal, 1993,
• Honorary Foreign Member, American Economic Association,depuis 97.
• Member, American Academy of Arts and Science, since 2000,  (see [responsibilities])

Publications, are gathered in 3 categories  (1- books, 2- main articles, 3- other articles)

• in a summary list,
• in a comprehensive list, under the headings
  • Genetal Equilibrium,
  • Applied Public Economics,
  • Theoretical Public Economics 1: public policies and cost benefit analysis,
  • Theoretical Public Economics 2 : taxation and redistribution,
  • Incentives and Contracts,
  • Endogenous fluctuations,
  • The rationality of expectations,
  • Miscellaneous. {see [publications]}