Julia Cagé
| Julia Cagé | |
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Julia Cagé (January 2017)
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| Born |
17 February 1984 Metz (Moselle), France |
| Nationality | French |
| Spouse(s) | Thomas Piketty (since 2014) |
| Institution | Sciences Po |
| Field | Economist |
| Alma mater |
Ecole Normale Supérieure (Ulm) (Major in Economics, 2005-2009) Pantheon-Sorbonne University (B.A. in Econometrics, 2008) Paris School of Economics (M.A. in Economics, 2008) Harvard University (PhD in Economics, 2014) |
| Influences | Nathan Nunn, Daniel Cohen |
Julia Cagé, born 17 February 1984 in Metz (Moselle), is a French economist specializing in development economics, political economy, and economic history.
Julia Cagé has a twin sister, Agathe Cagé, who is a technocrat and currently an advisor to Najat Vallaud-Belkacem.
Cagé attended prep school in letters and social sciences at in Marseille. From 2005 to 2010 she and her twin studied at the École normale supérieure of Paris.
From 2010 to 2014 she was a doctoral student in economics at Harvard. She received her PhD in ecomomics there in 2014 under Nathan Nunn. In 2013, she defended a thesis at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences on Essays in the Political Economy of Information and Taxation, under the direction of Daniel Cohen.
In 2014 she married the economist Thomas Piketty.
Since July 2014, Julia Cagé has been an assistant professor of Economics at Sciences Po Paris.
In February 2015, Julia Cagé published Saving the media: Capitalism, crowdfunding and democracy in French. By the end of 2016, it had been published in 10 other languages.
This book reviews existing models for funding the media, evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of each, and proposes a new structure for "saving the media", which she calls a "Nonprofit Media Organization (NMO)".
The fundamental problem with existing media organizations is that they have either not been self-sustaining or they have such inherent conflicts of interest that their coverage becomes a threat to democracy.
Her NMO is a charitable foundation but with democratic governance, limiting the power of the major donors while encouraging crowdfunding.
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