François Bourguignon
Professor of Economics
Paris School of Economics, Paris
Main Topics:
- Income distribution
- Inequality and poverty
- Wealth, income, and redistribution
- Political Economics
- Economic development
- International trade
Professional Profile:
François Bourguignon is professor of Economics at the Paris School of Economics and at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris.
He is a specialist in public economic policy, income distribution and inequality, and economic development and has authored a large number of academic papers and books.
Prior to his current appointment, he held the position of Senior Vice President for Development Economics and Chief Economist at the World Bank from 2003 to 2007. He was then appointed as the director of the newly created Paris School of Economics, an appointment he held until 2013.
Along teaching economics and supervising doctoral students, he is presently involved in several research projects.
He is also active in the international development community, lecturing and advising leading international agencies as well as foreign governments.
Selected Works:
- La globalizzazione della disuguaglianza, François Bourguignon, codice edizioni, 2013
(La globalizzazione è normalmente identificata come causa di ingiustizie e tensioni sociali: i dati però, mentre disegnano un mondo fatto di disuguaglianze sempre crescenti fra gli individui, ci dicono anche come le differenze nella ricchezza delle nazioni si siano alquanto livellate, portando il tenore di vita medio dei cittadini di paesi emergenti come il Brasile, la Cina e l’India ad avvicinarsi a quello di nordamericani ed europei. La globalizzazione è quindi stata “anche” un’opportunità per i paesi emergenti e in via di sviluppo? Un paradosso che François Bourguignon affronta corredando la sua analisi con la descrizione degli strumenti normativi a disposizione di governi e organizzazioni.)
- La mondialisation de l’inégalité, Le Seuil, 2012 (translated in German and Italian), an expanded version due to appear in English, (“The globalization of Inequality”, Princeton University Press, March 2015); Handbook of Income Distribution Volume 2, Elsevier (co-editedwith A. B. Atkinson).
- Multidimensional Poverty Ordering, Theory and Applications, edited with S. Chakravarty, Chapter 18 of “Arguments for a Better World –Essays in Honor of Amartya Sen”–Volume 1. Oxford University Press, New York, 2009.
- Global Crises, Global Solution, Second Edition, edited by Bjorn Lomborg, Chapter “ Expert Panel Ranking”with Jagdish N. Bhagwati, Finn E. Kydland, Robert Mundell, Douglass C. North, Thomas Schelling, Vernon L. Smith, Nancy L. Stokey (pages 657 to 679)
- Income Distribution in Computable General Equilibrium Modeling, with Bussolo, M., In: Dixon, P.B., Jorgenson, D.W. (Eds.), Handbook of Computable General Equilibrium Modeling. North Holland, Elsevier B.V., pages1383–1437,2013
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