Pr Aghion's Economics of Institutions, Innovation and Growth chair, created in 2015, comprises more than twenty researchers. Its aim is to drive cutting-edge research on the economics of innovation, the environment, productivity and firm dynamics, and household income mobility.

Prof. Aghion's lectures tackle some of the great enigmas of growth: the role of competition and that of industrial policy; the "Argentine paradox" and the traps of underdevelopment; the relationship between innovation, inequality and social mobility; and the apparent secular stagnation of developed economies. Finally, the lectures offer a new way of thinking about growth policies and learning about the mechanisms of growth from the mistakes of economic policy.