# Prof. Thomas Philippon on France's recently elected president, François Hollande

1 Faculty News May 10, 2012 ![](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_030601.jpg?itok=GeJte3i1)>

Excerpt from [Bloomberg Businessweek](http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-05-10/hollande-and-merkel-odd-couple-or-soulmates) -- "He may head France’s Socialist Party, but 'there is not a chance in the world that Hollande would try to implement old-fashioned socialism in France,' says [Thomas Philippon](http://w4.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/thomas-philippon), a French citizen and adviser to the Hollande campaign who is an economist at New York University’s Stern School of Business."

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