Jean-Luc Mélenchon and the Nobel Prize in Economics: a conflicting relationship

At the beginning of July 2024, while campaigning for the legislative elections, Jean-Luc Mélenchon praised the “worked and costed” economic program of the New Popular Front, modeled on that of the Insoumis. “Even a Nobel Prize winner in economics supports it! », he said in a meeting, loud and proud of the endorsement provided by the economist Esther Duflo, who received this prize in 2019.

Mr. Mélenchon has selective esteem. “That’s enough, the blow of the so-called (sic) Nobel Prize in economics,” he belched this Sunday on X. “It’s not the same Nobel Prize as that of medicine or physics. This is the prize created by a Swedish bank which they themselves called “Nobel” in supposed homage to the inventor of dynamite. » In La Tribune Dimanche, Philippe Aghion, Nobel Prize winner in 2025, said of his proposal to cancel the public debt that it is “the equivalent of hydroxychloroquine praised by Professor Raoult as a miracle treatment for Covid”. On France Inter on September 3…