Paris School of Economics, France’s LSE, turns 10

PARIS: Armed with an ever-lengthening list of prestigious names on its teaching staff and a constantly improving ranking, the Paris School of Economics -- which celebrates its 10th birthday this year -- is making its mark in the world of economics research, despite limited resources and its unusual structure.

Conceived from the very beginning as France’s answer to the London School of Economics or even Harvard, the idea of a PSE was long championed by France’s top economic thinkers such as Daniel Cohen and Thomas Piketty, author of the bestseller “Capital in the Twenty-First Century”.