Seeking french economist Nobel price

In 2012, the France was awarded a Nobel through the person of the physicist Serge Haroche. It is part of the 56 French only to have got it. flickr-CC-ereneta

Because I wrote some years ago, in an article published in the newspaper Le Monde that the scientific and technical border was again in the United States, I caused a scandal which compromised my mutation in this prestigious institution [1] at the University of Bordeaux.

Because I enounced  a fact and consistent with  the researcher’s method, based on this fact in an attempt to understand the origin, I was called  "pro-American" - supreme insult - by colleagues which for the most part take theirs acknowledges in economics from  K Marx’ “The Capital”. I can understand that the physician who studies cancer is pro-cancer?

But the devil franco-steriles academic quarrels, let's look at the facts as they are stubborn.

At that time, after the medicine, the American research was still devoted by the Nobel Foundation with two awards of the American astrophysicists. For 18 years, the American research affirms its supremacy in this most complex field of the sciences of nature, yet delivered to market forces.

Then, the Nobel Prize in chemistry that has been attributed to a... American chemist. Finally, the Nobel Prize in economics had just be attributed to U.S. economist Edmund Phelps for his fundamental work on the growth (that we would both now). It looks beautiful, the American decline periodically announced (hoped?) by our angry intellectuals... But when they see how the campaign of misinformation in France concerning   the work of Phelps raged, they say that it is not ready in France to get out of the impasse that ruin any return to prosperity [2].

The France should mobilize the United Nations probably asking what are applied quotas in the award of the Nobel Prize, more accurately reflecting cultural diversity in the world. Some think seriously of ethnic quotas. But if one does it for the Nobel, we should do it for sport, music...

Denying the reality of international, yet independent barometers, it comes to call into question the impartiality of the Nobel, dedicated to the cause Committee American and international rankings of universities (now in the hands of the Chinese universities).

But the fact is that astrophysicists, chemists, biologists and economists from around the world who want to work seriously (with real means) and freely (independently as a manipulated science is no longer a science), found a better home in American universities. And they come from all over the world.

Is this due to a gigantic conspiracy on the part of the U.S. Government or a suicidal self-delusion on the part of other countries whose Governments are all likely to manipulate information, money or scientific knowledge?

In the same time, students are invited to celebrate science feast while scientific struggle to find staff. And whole books are raining down whose central theme is to denigrate - when it is not insulting - the American nation with their collection of clichés worthy of the most sordid gutter press.

But our intellectuals are convinced: for them, Americans are just “morons” They maybe hope be thus crowned with the Nobel Prize for literature. Yet, again, in October 2012, two American Alvin Roth and Lloyd Shapley economists have won the Nobel Prize in economics for their work applied to the study of the behavior of the interveners on the market.

Personally, I have had the opportunity to share a unique moment in the life of a young researcher when Ronald Coase, an American economist, awarded the Nobel Prize in 1991, came to talk to me after my first lecture I gave at the University of Stockholm while I had to support my thesis.

He felt I was already discouraged while I was just starting my career, but I was wondering about my possible recruitment in France, he then handed me words of encouragement that I have never forgotten. There are encounters that matter in our lives. It’s up to us to provoke them a bit.