Gilles Saint-Paul - Biography#

Gilles Saint-Paul is Professor at Ecole Normale Superieure-PSL, Paris School of Economics, a CEPR Research Fellow, and a visiting professor at NYU-Abu Dhabi. He earned his PhD from MIT (1987‑90) with Olivier Blanchard and Michael Piore. He has published seven books and authored numerous articles in the top journals including a number of path breaking contributions on the political economy of labour market reform. His research has explored the factors influencing technological progress and growth, the political economy of unemployment and how information technology affects wage inequality. He has published The Tyranny of Utility (Princeton University Press, 2011) which discusses the dangers for individual freedom of behavioral social science when used by paternalistic governments. More recently, he has worked on the political economy of beliefs and ideologies and on evolutionary aspects of macroeconomic fluctuations. Saint-Paul's work has more than 2,700 Scopus citations, 1,551 WoS citations. According to RePEc he is the 7th most published and cited French economist.