"... [T]he grip of Newspeak is at its strongest in teacher training and the choice of thesis subjects. The new language will first take hold of the most malleable minds under the double effect of fashion and incentives. Here Keynesianism is a professional death certificate. A student studying disequilibrium is considered as if he were confessing that he doesn't understand mathematics. Why not join the poetry department?" —Jean-Paul Fitoussi, The New Speak and Economic Theory or How We Are Being Talked To
The Jean-Paul Fitoussi prizes at Columbia University and the Institut d'études politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) were established in 2024 by friends and family of the eminent economist Jean-Paul Fitoussi (August 19, 1942 - April 15, 2022). Fellowships are awarded annually, one at each university, in support of doctoral or early-career research.
The Fellowships encourage projects that tackle important, difficult, and neglected problems—that are, echoing Jean-Paul's Le Théorème du lampadaire, or The Lamp Post Theorem (2013), "far from the light."
