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Philippe Aghion, Nobel Prize in Economics 2025

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The Chairman of the Collège de France Award, the professors and the entire Collège de France community are delighted to announce that Professor Philippe Aghion, holder of the Economics of Institutions, Innovation and GrowthChair , and researchers Joel Mokyr and Peter Howitthave been awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics 2025 for their work on the impact of new technologies on economic growth.

Nobel Prizes awarded to Collège de France professors

Year	Estate	Winner
1927	Literature	Henri Bergson
1928	Physiology or medicine	Charles Nicolle
1935	Chemistry	Frédéric Joliot
1965	Physiology or medicine	François Jacob
1965	Physics	Jacques Monod
1980	Physiology or medicine	Jean Dausset
1987	Chemistry	Jean-Marie Lehn
1991	Physics	Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
1997	Physics	Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
2012	Physics	Serge Haroche
2019	Economics	Esther Duflo
2025	Economics	Philippe Aghion