Michel Aglietta

Michel Aglietta (18 February 1938 – 24 April 2025) was a French economist and Professor of Economics at Paris Nanterre University.

Life and career Michel Aglietta was a scientific counsellor at CEPII, a member of the Institut Universitaire de France and a consultant to Groupama. An alumnus of the École polytechnique in 1959, from 1998 to 2006, he was a member of the Cercle des économistes. From 1997 to 2003, he was a member of the Conseil d'Analyse Économique (CAE) for the French Prime Minister. His monograph A Theory of Capitalist Regulation: The US Experience (Verso, 1976) laid the foundation for the regulation school of economics. He was a teacher at HEC Paris.

In October 1974, Michel Aglietta published his thesis, entitled Régulation du mode de production capitaliste dans la longue période. Exemple des États-Unis (1870–1970), for his doctorate thesis at the University of Paris I: Panthéon-Sorbonne. He was also aggregate professor for the universities in Amiens, after he was administrator of the INSEE. The jury who marked his thesis consisted of Professors Raymond Barre, H. Brochier, Carlo Benetti, J. Weiller and Edmond Malinvaud.

Michel Aglietta was one of the founders in 1976, with Robert Boyer, of the regulation school. He was a specialist in international monetary economy, known for his work on the functions of financial markets.

Aglietta died in Paris on 24 April 2025, at the age of 87.

Main works La monnaie. Entre dettes et souveraineté, 2016 Dérives du capitalisme financier, 2004 Macroéconomie financière, 1995–2005 La violence de la monnaie, with André Orléan, 1984 Régulation et crises du capitalisme, 1976–1997 La monnaie souveraine, with André Orléan, 1998