Philippe Aghion's Birth Card: The 9 of Clubs

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Philippe Mario Aghion (French: [filip aɡjɔ̃]; born 17 August 1956) is a French economist who is Chair of Economics of Institutions, Innovation and Growth professor at the Collège de France, Kurt Björklund Chaired Professor in Innovation and Growth at INSEAD, and Visiting Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics. The birth-card coordinate for August 17 is the 9 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2025 Economic Sciences prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 2025 The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel — for the theory of sustained growth through creative destruction

The 9 of Clubs coordinate

Philippe Aghion's birthday maps to the 9 of Clubs (The Humanitarian Builder). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about a Nobel Prize and not a verdict on Philippe Aghion. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You let a used-up framework go and keep the part that still works.

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Philippe Aghion in the public record

Aghion and Peter Howitt are known for the Aghion–Howitt model. For this work, they shared half of the 2025 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences "for the theory of sustained growth through creative destruction". Philippe Aghion was born in Paris in 1956, he is the son of Gaby Aghion, a French fashion designer and founder of the French fashion house Chloé. Gaby is said to have coined the phrase prêt-à-porter. His father, Raymond Aghion, had an art gallery in Boulevard Saint-Germain. Both his parents are from Jewish families from Alexandria, Egypt. They later moved to Paris, in the Quartier latin before buying a house in Neuilly-sur-Seine. In an interview, Aghion recalled that he grew up surrounded by artists, including Karl Lagerfeld.

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Philippe Mario Aghion (French: [filip aɡjɔ̃]; born 17 August 1956) is a French economist who is Chair of Economics of Institutions, Innovation and Growth professor at the Collège de France, Kurt Björklund Chaired Professor in Innovation and Growth at INSEAD, and Visiting Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics.

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1. Aghion graduated from the mathematics section of the École normale supérieure de Cachan (now ENS Paris-Saclay, University of Paris-Saclay), and obtained a diplôme d'études approfondies and a doctorat de troisième cycle (third cycle doctorate) in mathematical economics from the Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne.
2. He received his PhD in economics from Harvard University in 1987.
3. Aghion began his academic career in 1987 when he joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as an Assistant Professor.
4. In 1989 he returned to France and became a researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS).

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