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Dr Maxime Desmarais-Tremblay

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Dr Maxime Desmarais-Tremblay

Position

Senior Lecturer in Economics

Department

Institute of Management Studies

Email

m.desmarais-tremblay (@gold.ac.uk)

Goldsmiths Research Centres/Groups

The theory of public finance, its recent history and philosophical foundations, is central to Maxime’s research.

I joined the Institute of Management Studies as Lecturer in Economics in 2017. I research the history and philosophy of economics. Prior to joining Goldsmiths, I was a postdoctoral assistant at the Centre Walras-Pareto in Lausanne. In 2021 I was a visiting fellow at the Center for the History of Political Economy at Duke University. I am the book review editor of the European Journal of the History of Economic Thought.

Academic qualifications

  • PhD in History of economic thought, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and Université de Lausanne 2016
  • Master in Economic Methodology, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne 2011
  • MSc in Economics, Université de Montréal 2011
  • BSc in Mathematics, Université de Montréal 2007

Teaching and supervision

I teach economic history and public economics. I am available to supervise PhD dissertations in history of economic thought.

Research interests

The research I conduct brings a reflexive outlook to economics. I have worked mainly in two areas: The history of public finance, and the conceptual history of economic thought.
I am currently working on a book project on Richard A. Musgrave and the Normative Foundations of Modern Public Finance.

Grants and awards

2020: Young Researcher Award (The European Society for the History of Economic Thought)
This prize is awarded every year to one (or two) scholar(s) below the age of 40 in recognition of outstanding publications in the history of economic thought.

2017: Faculty award for excellence of dissertation, HEC Lausanne

2017: Aguirre-Basualdo Prize for PhD dissertation in economics awarded by the Chancellerie des Universités de Paris

Publications and research outputs

Book Section

Desmarais-Tremblay, Maxime. 2021. Musgrave and the Idea of Community. In: Roger Backhouse; Antoinette Baujard and Tamotsu Nishizawa, eds. Welfare Theory, Public Action, and Ethical Values: Revisiting the History of Welfare Economics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 232-255. ISBN 9781108882507

Cserne, Péter and Desmarais-Tremblay, Maxime. 2021. Merit Goods. In: Mortimer Sellers and Stephan Kirste, eds. Encyclopedia of the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy. Springer, pp. 1-6. ISBN 9789400767300

Article

Desmarais-Tremblay, Maxime; Johnson, Marianne and Sturn, Richard. 2023. From public finance to public economics. The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 30(5), pp. 934-964. ISSN 0967-2567

Desmarais-Tremblay, Maxime; Johnson, Marianne and Sturn, Richard. 2023. Mapping the history of public economics in the twentieth century: an introduction to the special issue. The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 30(5), pp. 689-712. ISSN 0967-2567

Bee, Michele and Desmarais-Tremblay, Maxime. 2023. The Birth of Homo Œconomicus: The methodological debate on the economic agent from J. S. Mill to V. Pareto. Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 45(1), pp. 1-26. ISSN 1053-8372