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François Allisson Historian of economic thought |
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About me
I am an historian of economic thought and a senior lecturer at the Centre Walras Pareto at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland.
I am the co-author of a book on Robert Brenner and political Marxism (in French, with Nicolas Brisset) and the author of Value and Prices in Russian Economic Thought (ESHET Best Book Award 2016).
Research interests
- Intellectual history of capitalism and socialism
- History of value theories
- History of economic planning
- Russian, Ukrainian, and Soviet economic thought
- Lausanne “local” histories
- on the Bibliothèque russe de Lausanne
- on early Russian interest to the Lausanne School of Economics
- Methodology and history of economic thought more broadly
Academic community
I serve as the president of the Association Charles Gide, the French and French-speaking association for historians of economic thought.
I am one of the three co-hosts of the Smith and Marx Walk into a Bar podcast, and I manage the blog of the Centre Walras Pareto.
Publications
Besides my books and articles, here are a few additional materials:
- Blogposts
- On teaching macroeconomics: Un manuel indien de macroéconomie à l’Unil
- On Maurice Dobb: Maurice H. Dobb’s Wages: A Journey Ahead of the Standardization of Labor Economics (with Cléo Chassonnery-Zaïgouche)
- Podcasts
- On Exit Capitalism! A New Board Game (Ceteris Never Paribus podcast)
- On my research on Russian economic thought (Smith and Marx Walk into a Bar podcast)
- Poster on the early Ukrainian Marxist Nikolaj Ivanovich Sieber
Contact
If you want to hire me, here is my CV.
You can contact me at francois.allisson(at)unil.ch
Elsewhere: I used to be on Twitter during its golden years.
Licence
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