We would like to invite you to the
Yrjö Jahnsson Award in Economics Lectures
2025 Award Winners
Professor Julia Cagé (Sciences Po, Paris)
Professor David Yanagisawa-Drott (University of Zurich)
on Thursday, 17 September 2026, lectures from 13:00 to 16:00
at Aalto University Executive Education and Professional Development,
Tapiola Hall, Runeberginkatu 14–16, 00100 Helsinki
Programme
13:00 – 13:10 Opening remarks: Essi Eerola, Board Member, Yrjö Jahnsson Foundation
Moderator Terhi Maczulskij, Managing Director, Yrjö Jahnsson Foundation
13:10 – 14:25 Julia Cagé: Making Teenagers Read Newspapers
14:25 – 14:45 Coffee Break
14:40 – 16:00 David Yanagisawa-Drott: The Political Economy of Mass Media: What Have We Learned?
16:00 – 17:00 Wine reseption
The lectures are open to everyone. Places are filled in order of registration.
Welcome!
Julia Cagé and David Yanagizawa-Drott have made important contributions with their work on political economy and the media, based on deep historical research in France, the USA, and African countries. A key and timely lesson of their work is the critical role of media and social media in motivating political beliefs and actions, as well as the dangers posed by controlled media. Their findings underscore the importance of media independence for a healthy democracy.
Yrjö Jahnsson Award in Economics
In 1993, the Yrjö Jahnsson Foundation established a biennial award to recognize a European economist aged 45 or younger who has made a significant contribution to theoretical and applied economic research in Europe. The European Economic Association (EEA) cooperates with the Yrjö Jahnsson Foundation in selecting the award winners.