The French Economist daniel cohena great popularizer of his discipline and known in particular for his work on the sovereign debtsdied this Sunday in Paris at the age of 70.
The French Prime Minister, Élisabeth Borne, paid tribute on her account on the social network X (formerly Twitter) to whom she described as a “great researcher and brilliant economist”. “Her vision of the French economy and of the great revolutions, in particular the digital one, will be sorely missed in the public debate,” added the prime minister.
In a similar vein, the Minister of the Economy, Bruno Le Maire, on the same social network, also praised the figure who “was not only an immense economist, but also an unequaled educator, a brush cutter of new ideas, a brilliant author and convincing”.
Born in Tunisia in 1953, Daniel Cohen had worked at the Lazard bank and was a member from 1997 to 2012 of the Council for Economic Analysis, a pluralist think tank that advises the French government.
His work was recognized in his country twice with the Economics Book Award in 2000 for his work “Nos temps modernes” and in 2012 for “Homo Economicus, prohète (égaré des temps nouveaux)”.
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After the outbreak of the financial crisis fifteen years ago, he was one of the renowned economists who tried to combat the orthodoxy that prevailed at the time by speaking out against harsh adjustment policies in countries suffering from market pressure due to the debt, like Spain.
He supported François Hollande for the 2012 presidential elections and BeBenoît Hamon in 2017.