Dr. Elodie BERTRAND Associate Research Professor in Economics

Dr. Elodie BERTRAND
Associate Research Professor in Economics
Institut des Sciences Juridique et Philosophique de la Sorbonne Centre Malher – 9 rue Malher 75004 Paris – France +33144783348 Elodie.Bertrand@univ-‐paris1.fr http://perso.univ-‐paris1.fr/elodieb JUNE 2017 RESEARCH INTERESTS History of economic thought, Philosophy and economics, Institutionalism Coase theorem, Ronald H. Coase, Externalities, Norms, Commodification EXPERIENCE 2011-‐present National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) Associate research professor in Economics (CR1) 2016-‐present: Institute of Legal and Philosophical Sciences (ISJPS, CNRS and University Paris 1 Panthéon-‐Sorbonne, UMR 8103) 2011-‐2016: PHARE (Philosophy, History and Analysis of Economic Representations, University Paris 1 Panthéon-‐Sorbonne) 2004-‐2011 Associate professor, University Littoral Côte d’Opale 2002-‐2004 Assistant professor, University Paris 1 Panthéon-‐Sorbonne 1999-‐2002 Teaching assistant, University Paris 1 Panthéon-‐Sorbonne EDUCATION 2013 Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches, Economics, University Paris 1 Panthéon-‐Sorbonne Synthesis title: From lighthouse to bees: Ronald Coase and the decentralization of externalities (in French) Committee : Stefano Bosi (University of Evry), Geoffrey Hodgson (University of Hertfordshire, referee), Guillaume Hollard (CNRS, Paris School of Economics, president), André Lapidus (University Paris 1 Panthéon-‐Sorbonne, supervisor), Steven Medema (University of Colorado Denver, referee), Steven Pratten (King’s College London) 2003 PhD in Economics, University Paris 1 Panthéon-‐Sorbonne, with Special Honours Dissertation title: The ‘Coase Theorems’: microeconomic statements and criticisms (in French) Committee: Richard Arena (University of Nice), Pierre Garrouste (University of Lyon, referee), Xavier Greffe (University of Paris 1 Panthéon-‐Sorbonne, president), André Hervier (University of Paris 1 Panthéon-‐Sorbonne, supervisor), Maurice Lagueux (University of Montreal, referee) ACADEMIC HONORS AND GRANTS 2017 ESHET Young Researcher Award, awarded by the European Society for the History of Economic Thought in recognition of scholarly achievements and outstanding publications of historians of economic thought at an early stage of their career 2015-‐2017 Research grant, University Paris 1 Panthéon-‐Sorbonne, for the project “The lighthouse as a public good – theory, history and policy” (€8,000) (principal investigator) 2010-‐2011 Bonus for Scientific Excellence 2010-‐2011 Seconded to CNRS, affiliated to IRISSO (Institute of Interdisciplinary Research in Social Sciences, CNRS and University Paris Dauphine) 2009 Sabbatical Research Leave Grant (6 months) 2004 Vouters Prize, awarded by the Chancellery of Paris for best PhD dissertation 2002 Herbert Simon Young Scholar Prize, awarded by EAEPE (European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy), for “The Coasean Analysis of Lighthouse Financing: Myths and Realities” 1999-‐2002 PhD program fellowship, University Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne PUBLICATIONS EDITED VOLUME The Elgar Companion to Ronald Coase, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar, 2016, 367 pp., with C. Ménard. SPECIAL ISSUE Economie, règles et normes: une perspective historique (Economics, rules and norms: A historical perspective), special issue of the Revue Economique, 65(2), 2014, with N. Sigot. PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS (indexed by HCERES and CNRS) “Coase’s choice of methodology”, The Cambridge Journal of Economics, 40(4), 2016, 1203-‐27. “An underrated originality of ‘The Problem of Social Cost’: The LSE source”, History of Economic Ideas, 23(3), 2015, 19-‐43. “From the firm to economic policy: The problem of Coase’s cost”, History of Political Economy, 47(3), 2015, 481-‐510. “‘The fugitive’: The figure of the judge in Coase’s economics”, The Journal Of Institutional Economics, 11(2), 2015, 413-‐35. “Market internalization of externalities: What is failing?”, The Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 36(3), 2014, 331-‐57, with N. Berta. “Autorisation à l’échange sur des externalités: de l’interdiction à l’obligation” (Allowing exchanges over externalities: from ban to obligation), Revue Economique, 65(2), 2014, 439-‐59. (in French) “L'intégration des règles et normes en économie : une histoire officielle en question” (The integration of rules and norms to economics: questioning an official history), Revue Economique, 65(2), 2014, 215-‐24, with N. Sigot. (in French) “What do cattle and bees tell us about the Coase theorem?”, The European Journal of Law and Economics, 31(1), 2011, 39-‐62. “The three roles of the ‘Coase theorem’ in Coase’s works”, The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 17(4), 2010, 975-‐1000. Repr. in G. Faccarello and R. Sturn (eds), Studies in the History of Public Economics, Routledge, 2011, 435-‐60. 2
“Empirical investigations and their normative interpretations: A reply to Barnett and Block”, Public Choice, 140(1-‐2), 2009, 15-‐20. “La transaction dans l'économie institutionnaliste américaine: de Commons à Coase” (The transaction in American Institutionalist Economics: From Commons to Coase), Pensée Plurielle, 20, 2009, 13-‐24, with C. Beaurain. (in French) “La thèse d’efficience du ‘théorème de Coase’: Quelle critique de la microéconomie?” (The Efficiency Claim of the ‘Coase Theorem’: Which Criticism of Microeconomics?), Revue Economique, 57(5), 2006, 983-‐1007. Republished in Problèmes Economiques, 2.911. (in French) “The Coasean Analysis of Lighthouse Financing: Myths and Realities”, Cambridge Journal of Economics, 30(3), 2006, 389-‐402. OTHER PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATION “Le ‘théorème de Coase’, une réflexion sur les fondements microéconomiques de l’intervention publique” (The ‘Coase Theorem’, a Reflection on the Microeconomic Foundations of Public Intervention), Reflets et Perspectives de la vie économique, 41(2), 2002, 111-‐24, with C. Destais. (in French) CONTRIBUTIONS TO PEER REVIEWED BOOKS “Coase theorem (empirical studies)” in A. Marciano and G. Ramello (eds), Encyclopedia of Law and Economics, New York, Springer, forthcoming 2017. “Lighthouses ”, in A. Marciano and G. Ramello (eds), Encyclopedia of Law and Economics, New York, Springer, 2017. DOI: 10.1007/978-‐1-‐4614-‐7883-‐6_629-‐1 “Coase and property rights”, in A. Marciano and G. Ramello (eds), Encyclopedia of Law and Economics, New York, Springer, 2017. DOI: 10.1007/978-‐1-‐4614-‐7883-‐6_6-‐1 “Ronald H. Coase”, in G. Faccarello and H. D. Kurz (eds), Handbook of the History of Economic Analysis, vol. 1, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar, 2016, 631-‐33. “Institutional Economics”, in G. Faccarello and H. D. Kurz (eds), Handbook of the History of Economic Analysis, vol. 3, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar, 2016, 316-‐28. “Theory of the firm”, in G. Faccarello and H. D. Kurz (eds), Handbook of the History of Economic Analysis, vol. 3, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar, 2016, 553-‐62. “Introduction” in C. Ménard and E. Bertrand (eds), The Elgar Companion to Ronald Coase, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar, 2016, 1-‐4, with C. Ménard. “Coase’s empirical studies and their interpretations: The case of the lighthouse”, in C. Ménard and E. Bertrand (eds), The Elgar Companion to Ronald Coase, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar, 2016, 320-‐32. “Ronald Harry Coase”, in D. Chabaud, J.-‐M. Glachant and Y. Pérez (eds), Les grands auteurs en économie des organisations (Major Authors in the Economics of Organisations), Paris, Editions Management et Société, 2008, 23-‐48, with S. Saussier. (in French) “The ‘Problem of Social Cost’ by Ronald H. Coase (1960)”, in J. Couppey-‐Soubeyran (ed.), Dictionnaire de l’Economie, Editions Universalis et Albin Michel, 2007. (in French) “Two complex lighthouse production systems: The mixed English and the centralized French systems”, in J. Finch and M. Orillard (eds), Complexity and the Economy: Implications for Economic Policy, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar, 2005, 191-‐206. FORTHCOMING “George Stigler, the first apostle of the Coase theorem”, in C. Freedman (ed.), Understanding the Enigmatic George Stigler: Extending Price Theory in Economics and Beyond, Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming 2018. 3
“Financer les phares, en France et en Angleterre : l’exemple de Cordouan” (Financing lighthouses, in France and in England: the example of Cordouan), in A. Conchon, D. Plouviez, E. Sulzman, Le financement des infrastructures de transport, IGPDE Editions, with V. Guigueno. (in French) REVISION PROCESS Edited volume, L’appropriation privative: une menace pour les biens communs? (Privative Appropriation: A Threat for the Commons?), Presses Universitaires de Paris-‐Ouest, edited with P. Crétois, C. Guibet-‐Lafaye, P. Poinsot, C. Rio. (in French) “Coase, costs and divergences. From ‘The Marginal Cost Controversy’ to ‘The Problem of Social Cost’”, revise History of Political Economy, with A. Marciano. MIMEO “Commodification and externalities”, last version: June 2017. “Much ado about nothing? The controversy over the validity of the Coase theorem”, last version: February 2017. “Questioning the role of empirical studies in Coase’s method”, last version: April 2008. PRESENTATIONS CONFERENCES •
History of Economics Society (HES), Toronto, June 2017 •
European Society for the History of Economic Thought (ESHET), Antwerpen, May 2017 •
European Association of Law and Economics (EALE), Bologna, September 2016 •
European Society for the History of Economic Thought (ESHET), Paris, May 2016 •
French Association of Political Economy (AFEP), Paris, July 2014 •
History of Economics Society (HES), Montréal, July 2014 •
Charles Gide Association for the Study of Economic Thought, Lyon, June 2014 •
European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy (EAEPE), Paris, November 2013 •
European Society for the History of Economic Thought (ESHET), London, May 2013 •
Paris 2012 joint conference (AFEP, AHE, IIPPE), Paris, July 2012 •
Economic Philosophy Conference, Lille, June 2012 •
Charles Gide Association for the Study of Economic Thought, Nice, June 2012 •
European Society for the History of Economic Thought (ESHET), Istanbul, May 2011 •
French Association for Political Economy (AFEP), Lille, December 2010 •
History of Economics Society (HES), Syracuse, June 2010 •
Charles Gide Association for the Study of Economic Thought, Paris, May 2010 •
History of Public Economics Conference, Paris, December 2008 •
European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy (EAEPE), Porto, November 2007 •
History of Economics Society (HES), Washington, June 2007 •
European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy (EAEPE), Istanbul, November 2006 •
International Society for New Institutional Economics (ISNIE), Barcelona, September 2005 •
European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy (EAEPE), Crete, October 2004 •
Charles Gide Association for the Study of Economic Thought, Grenoble, September 2003 •
European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy (EAEPE), Aix-‐en-‐Provence, November 2002 •
French Association for Economic Science (AFSE), Paris, September 2001 4
INVITED SEMINARS •
Economic Epistemology Circle, University Paris 1, January 2017 (with C. Ménard) •
Workshop Cairo University – University Paris 1 Panthéon-‐Sorbonne, Paris, September 2015 •
GATE L-‐SE Seminar, University Jean Monnet, March 2013 •
Cambridge Realist Workshop, University of Cambridge, February 2013 •
ISEM Seminar, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, May 2012 •
ERMES-‐PHARE seminar, Universities Paris 1 and Paris 2, April 2011 •
CES seminar, University Paris 1 Panthéon-‐Sorbonne, April 2011 •
Opening Conference of the 7th ENEF workshop (European Network on the Economics of the Firm), Amsterdam School of Economics, Amsterdam, September 2010 •
ERUDITE seminar, University Paris Est Créteil, April 2010 •
EPEE seminar, University Evry Val d’Essonne, February 2010 •
Seminal Texts seminar, on « ‘The Nature of the Firm’ (Coase 1937) », University Paris 1 Panthéon-‐
Sorbonne, February 2010 •
Seminar of economic philosophy, GREQAM, University Aix-‐Marseille 3, March 2007 •
ATOM seminar, University Paris 1, February 2007 •
Meeting of the Dutch-‐Flemish History of Economic Thought Society, University of Groningen, August 2005 •
ATOM seminar, University Paris 1 Panthéon-‐Sorbonne, February 2004 •
Seminar The Luncheon of Economics and Philosophy, Paris, May 2002 WORKSHOPS AND SUMMER SCHOOLS •
Le financement des infrastructures de transport, XVIIe-‐début XIXe siècle, University Paris 1 Panthéon-‐Sorbonne, June 2016 •
Fictions originelles, états hypothétiques et conjectures historiques dans la pensée économique, Workshop of the Charles Gide Association, University Paris 1 Panthéon-‐Sorbonne, November 2015 •
The lighthouse as a public good, from the 17th century to the present day, Launching workshop, University Paris 1 Panthéon-‐Sorbonne, November 2014 •
Economics and the Law in Europe in the 20th century – History and Methodology, International workshop, Universities of Nanterre and Dauphine, September 2014 •
Workshop on the interface history of economic thought – economic theory, Universities Lyon 2 and Lyon 3, May 2013 •
Workshop on the interface history of economic thought – economic theory, University of Strasbourg, December 2010 (with N. Berta) •
9th Corsica Law and Economics Workshop, University of Reims Champagne Ardennes, April 2008 •
Workshop on Social Transactions and Social and Human Sciences, University of Littoral Côte d’Opale, December 2007 (with C. Beaurain) •
Summer School on the History of Economic Thought and Methodology, Nice, September 2001 •
Summer School on the History of Economic Thought and Methodology, Ecully, September 2000 5
RESEARCH PROJECTS •
Leader “The lighthouse as a public good – theory, history and policy”, international (26 members from US, EU, Asia) and interdisciplinary (economics, law, history, geography), 2014-‐2017 •
Scientific committee “Insurance and Society. Historicity of Knowledge and Practice of Interdisciplinarity”, Pluriannual Research Program, financed by University Paris 1 Panthéon-‐
Sorbonne and French Insurances Federation, 2016-‐2018 •
Leader “Rethinking norms and their interactions in environmental matters”, interdisciplinary research team of the ISJPS PROFESSIONAL AND ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES •
Charles Gide Association for the Study of Economic Thought (French-‐speaking association for the promotion of history of economic thought and economic philosophy) o
Vice-‐President (2012-‐2014) o
Council member (2012-‐present) ACADEMIC EVENTS •
Co-‐organizer Political Economy Seminar (2011-‐present) •
Co-‐organizer The Afternoons of Philosophy and Economics (2008-‐2016) •
Scientific committee of “Fabricating Modern Economics; A singular French episode 1975-‐1985”, University Côte d’Azur (UCA), GREDEG UCA-‐CNRS, Nice, 7-‐9 December 2017. •
Co-‐organizer XXth annual ESHET Conference (European Association for the History of Economic Thought), PHARE, University Paris 1 Panthéon-‐Sorbonne, 26-‐28 May 2016 •
Co-‐organizer “The privative appropriation of the public and the common: theories, history and policies”, workshop, PHARE, CMH (CNRS – EHESS – ENS) and Sophiapol (University Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense), University Paris 1 Panthéon-‐Sorbonne, 21-‐22 January 2016 •
Scientific committee of “Economics and Religion” Conference, Sciences Po Lille, 15-‐16 January 2015 •
Main organizer “The lighthouse as a public good, from the 17th century to the present day” workshop, PHARE, University Paris 1 Panthéon-‐Sorbonne, 21-‐22 November 2014 •
Main organizer 13th Biennial International Conference of the Charles Gide Association for the Study of Economic Thought, on “Institutions in economic thought”, PHARE and Universities Paris 1 Panthéon-‐Sorbonne and Paris-‐Dauphine, Paris, 27-‐29 May 2010 •
Co-‐organizer 3rd workshop on the interface history of economic thought – economic theory, University of Paris Vincennes Saint-‐Denis, Paris, 29-‐30 April 2009 •
Co-‐organizer 10th European Summer School in History of Economic Thought and Methodology, Dunkerque, 3-‐7 September 2007, ULCO •
Co-‐organizer 7th Spring Meeting of Young Economists, Paris, 18-‐20 April 2002, University Paris 1 Panthéon-‐Sorbonne •
Scientific committee EAEPE Annual Conference (European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy), Maastricht, 7-‐10 November 2003 6
REFEREE •
Business History; Cambridge Journal of Economics; Economics Bulletin; Economies et Sociétés (série PE); European Journal of the History of Economic Thought; European Journal of Law and Economics; European Review of Economic History; History of Economic Ideas; History of Political Economy; Information et Sciences Sociales; International Review of Law and Economics; Journal des Economistes et des Etudes Humaines; Journal of Economic Methodology; Journal of Economic Surveys; Journal of the History of Economic Thought; Journal of Institutional Economics; Journal of Policy History; Law and Contemporary Problems; Oxford University Press; Palgrave Macmillan; Papers in Political Economy; Public Finance Review; Recherches Economiques de Louvain; Review of Social Economics; Revue Economique; Revue de l’OFCE; Revue de Philosophie Economique; Scandinavian Journal of Economics UNIVERSITY and CNRS SERVICE •
Deputy director of PHARE 2012-‐2016, board member 2010-‐present, council member 2008-‐
present •
Consultative committee for recruitment in Economics, University Paris 1 Panthéon-‐Sorbonne: Elected member, 2014-‐present •
“Scientific and technical committee RIBAC”, CNRS: Nominated member, 2012-‐present •
Director of Master Program in Economics (Tools for Decision Making in Firm), 2006-‐2010, ULCO •
Director of final year undergraduate program in Economics, 2004-‐2007, ULCO OTHER EXPERTISE COMMITTEES •
National Council of Universities for Economics: Nominated member 2015-‐present •
Recruiting committees for associate professor in Economics: University Paris 8 Vincennes Saint Denis (2009, 2014), University Paris 1 Panthéon-‐Sorbonne (2014), University Nice Sophia Antipolis (2012, 2013) •
Jury of the Ile-‐de-‐France Region for grants to academic events, 2014-‐2015 PHD. JURY •
Régis SERVANT, Théorie, bien-‐être et souveraineté: une étude de la pensée économique et culturelle de F. A. Hayek, University Paris 1 Panthéon-‐Sorbonne, 2012, supervised by P. Garrouste. TEACHING ACTIVITIES •
Master in Economics, specialty History of Economic Thought, 2nd year, University Paris 1 Panthéon-‐Sorbonne, “Historicists and Institutionalists” (2010-‐present) •
Master in Philosophy, specialty Philosophy and Society, 1st year, University Paris 1 Panthéon-‐
Sorbonne, “Economic and social philosophy” (2014-‐2015; 2016-‐present). Theme: “Property rights, rules and institutions: an application to environmental policies” •
Master in Economics, ULCO (2004-‐2010): Environmental Public Policies, Institutional Economics, Public Economics, Industrial Economics, Economic Theories of Organizations, Local Government Policies, Methodology of Scientific Research •
Undergraduate, ULCO (2004-‐2008): Public Economics, History of Economic Thought, Theories of the State •
Teaching assistant, Master and undergraduate, University Paris 1 Panthéon-‐Sorbonne (1999-‐
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