The University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne is one of the leading institution of higher education in France. It is also one of the largest universities in France today (with about 40 000 students), and is at the forefront of research in the fields of economics. PHARE (Pôle d’Histoire de l’Analyse et des Représentations Economiques) is a research center labeled by the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne and, since 2011, by the CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique). It is the only European Center devoted exclusively to the History of Economic Thought.