Name: An Agenda for a Growing Europe: The Sapir Report
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Author: Philippe Aghion
ISBN: 9780199271481

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An Agenda for a Growing Europe: The Sapir Report

Type

Physical Book

Author

Philippe Aghion

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Year

2004

Language

English

Pages

234

Format

Hardcover

ISBN

0199271488

ISBN13

9780199271481

Edition No.

Synopsis "An Agenda for a Growing Europe: The Sapir Report "

Over the past decade European economic integration has seen considerable institutional success, but the economic performance of the EU has been varied. While macroeconomic stability has improved and an emphasis on cohesion preserved, the EU economic system has not delivered satisfactory growth performance.This book is the report of a high-level group commissioned by the President of the European Commission to review the EU economic system and propose a blueprint for an economic system capable of delivering faster growth along with stability and cohesion. It assesses the EU s economic performance, examines the challenges facing the EU in the coming years, and presents a series of recommendations.The report views Europe's unsatisfactory growth performance during the last decades as a symptom of its failure to transform into an innovation-based economy. It has now become clear that the context in which economic policies have been developed has changed fundamentally over the past thirty years. A system built around the assimilation of existing technologies, mass production generating economics of scale, and an industrial structure dominated by large firms with stable markets and long term employment patterns no longer delivers in the world of today, characterized by economic globalization and strong external competition. What is needed now is more opportunity for new entrants, greater mobility of employees within and across firms, more retraining, greater reliance on market financing, and higher investment in both R&D and higher education. This requires a massive and urgent change in economic policies in Europe.

Philippe Aghion

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Philippe Aghion es un economista francés reconocido por sus aportes a la teoría del crecimiento endógeno y la innovación como motor del desarrollo económico. Nacido en París en 1956, ha sido profesor en instituciones de prestigio como la Universidad de Harvard y el Collège de France. Su investigación ha influido en la comprensión de cómo la competencia, la innovación tecnológica y las políticas públicas interactúan para impulsar el progreso económico. Su pensamiento retoma y amplía la noción schumpeteriana de “destrucción creativa” adaptándola a los desafíos del capitalismo contemporáneo.

Entre sus obras más destacadas se encuentra El poder de la destrucción creativa, escrita junto a Céline Antonin y Simon Bunel, donde analiza cómo la innovación puede generar crecimiento sostenible y bienestar social si se acompaña de instituciones sólidas. Aghion ha recibido múltiples reconocimientos, entre ellos el Premio Yrjö Jahnsson en Economía y el Prix Jean-Jacques Laffont, consolidando su posición como una de las voces más influyentes en el pensamiento económico moderno.

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