Curriculum Vitae

Aurélien Goutsmedt: positions, education, grants, publications, teaching and academic activities.

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Positions

Sept 2024 -

Assistant Professor
ICHEC - Brussels Management School, Brussels, Belgium

Sept 2024 -

Lecturer
UCLouvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

Apr 2024 - May 2024

Visiting Scholar
European University Institute (EUI), Alcide de Gasperi Center, Florence, Italie

Feb 2023 - Mar 2023

Visiting Scholar
Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), CIRST, Montréal, Canada

Oct 2021 - Apr 2026

Post-Doctoral Researcher
UCLouvain, Institut de Sciences Politiques Louvain-Europe (ISPOLE), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

Jan 2020 - Jan 2021

Post-Doctoral Researcher
Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) et Université de Sherbroke, Centre interuniversitaire de recherche sur la science et la technologie (CIRST) de recherche sur la science et la technologie (CIRST), Montreal, Canada

Sept 2018 - Aug 2019

Post-Doctoral Researcher
Duke University, Center for the History of Political Economy, Durham (Noth Carolina), United States

Sept 2016 - Aug 2018

Teaching and Research Assistant in Economics
Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris, France

Sept 2013 - Aug 2016

French Ministry for Education and Research Doctoral Fellowship
Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris, France

Education

2017

PhD in Economics
Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
Dissertation title: “The macroeconomists and Stagflation: Essays on the Transformations of Macroeconomics in the 1970s”

2013

MA Research ESH (Economics and Human Sciences)
Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
Top of the class

2012

MA THEME (Theories, History, and Methods in Economics)
Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne

Grants and research projects

Juin 2025

Submission FRHE Project (under evaluation)
“Debating Inflation in Europe - How Narratives Shape Anti-Inflation Policies”, 200 000€

Oct 2022

Submission of an ERC Starting Grant proposal
“DEFLATEUR - Debating Inflation in Europe - How Narratives Shape Anti-Inflation Policies”, 1 500 000€

Jan 2021 - Jun 2022

History of Economics Society New Intiatives Fund (PI)
“Mapping Macroeconomics - An Interactive Platform for the Exploration of Inter-Specialties Relationships in Macroeconomics, 1970-2020”, $12 000

Mar 2019 - Oct 2020

UK ESRC funding, Rebuilding Macroeconomics
“Excavating the Academia/Policy Pipeline - Economic Analysis at the Bank of England Pre- and Post-crisis”, £50 000
Collaborator and writing of the project proposal. PI: Béatrice Cherrier.

Publications

Full list with abstracts, preprints and open-access versions on the publications page.

Peer-reviewed articles and books

• Delcey, Thomas, Aurélien Goutsmedt, and Alexandre Truc. (2026). One Sentence at a Time: A Quantitative History of Rationality in Economic Thought. European Journal for the History of Economic Thought, Forthcoming. [Preprint]
• Goutsmedt, Aurélien, Juan Carlos Acosta, and Francesco Sergi. (2026). Economists, Economic Knowledge, and Central Banks. Cambridge (UK): Cambridge University Press, Cambridge Elements, Forthcoming 2026. [Preprint]
• Sergi, Francesco, Béatrice Cherrier, Aurélien Saidi, Pedro Garcia Duarte, Aurélien Goutsmedt, Matthieu Renault, and Juan Carlos Acosta. (2026). A History of Macroeconomics. Cambridge (UK): Cambridge University Press, Forthcoming 2026. [Preprint]
• Chassonnery-Zaigouche, Cléo, and Aurélien Goutsmedt. (2025). Modelling intervention: Barbara Bergmann’s micro-to-macro simulation projects. European Journal for the History of Economic Thought, 32(3): 342–362. [Preprint]
• Goutsmedt, Aurélien, and Clément Fontan. (2025). La BCE face à ses monstres : les transformations du cadrage de la stabilité des prix (1998-2023). Revue Française D’histoire Économique, 23. [Preprint]
• Goutsmedt, Aurélien, Francesco Sergi, François Claveau, and Clément Fontan. (2025). Not a steamroller, a 3D process: Scientization at the Bank of England. Finance and Society, 11(2): 230–252. [Preprint]
• Goutsmedt, Aurélien, and Francesco Sergi. (2025). Redefining Scientization: Central Banks Between Science and Politics. Finance and Society, 11(2): 209–229. [Preprint]
• Goutsmedt, Aurélien, Francesco Sergi, Béatrice Cherrier, François Claveau, Clément Fontan, and Juan Acosta. (2025). To Change or Not to Change: The Evolution of Forecasting Models at the Bank of England. Journal of Economic Methodology, 32(2): 66–86. [Preprint]
• Acosta, Juan, Beatrice Cherrier, François Claveau, Clément Fontan, Aurélien Goutsmedt, and Francesco Sergi. (2024). Six Decades of Economic Research at the Bank of England. History of Political Economy, 56(1): 1–40. [Preprint]
• Goutsmedt, Aurélien, and Clément Fontan. (2024). The ECB and the inflation monsters: strategic framing and the responsibility imperative (1998-2023). Journal of European Public Policy, 31(4): 999–1025. [Preprint]
• Goutsmedt, Aurélien, and Alexandre Truc. (2023). An Independent European Macroeconomics? A History of European Macroeconomics through the Lens of the European Economic Review. European Economic Review, 158. [Preprint]
• Goutsmedt, Aurélien, François Claveau, and Catherine Herfeld. (2023). Quantitative and Computational Approaches in the Social Studies of Economics. OEconomia - History, Methodology, Philosophy, 13(2): 147–161. [Preprint]
• Goutsmedt, Aurélien. (2022). How the Phillips Curve Shaped Full Employment Policy in the 1970s: the Debates on the Humphrey-Hawkins Act. History of Political Economy, 54(4): 619–653. [Preprint]
• Goutsmedt, Aurélien, Matthieu Renault, and Francesco Sergi. (2021). European Economics and the Early Years of the International Seminar on Macroeconomics. Revue d’Economie Politique, 131(4): 693–722. [Preprint]
• Goutsmedt, Aurélien. (2021). From the Stagflation to the Great Inflation: Explaining the US economy of the 1970s. Revue d’Economie Politique, 131(3): 557–582. [Preprint]
• Goutsmedt, Aurélien, Danielle Guizzo, and Francesco Sergi. (2019). An agenda without a plan. Robert E. Lucas’s trajectory through the public debate. OEconomia - History, Methodology, Philosophy, 9(2): 289–314. [Preprint]
• Goutsmedt, Aurélien, Erich Pinzón-Fuchs, Matthieu Renault, and Francesco Sergi. (2019). Reacting to the Lucas Critique: The Keynesians’ Pragmatic Replies. History of Political Economy, 51(3): 533–556. [Preprint]
• Goutsmedt, Aurélien, and Goulven Rubin. (2018). Robert J. Gordon and the introduction of the natural rate hypothesis in the Keynesian framework. History of Economic Ideas, 26(3): 157–187. [Preprint]
• Goutsmedt, Aurélien. (2018). Thomas Sargent face à Robert Lucas : une autre ambition pour la Nouvelle Economie Classique. OEconomia - History, Methodology, Philosophy, 8(2): 211–241. [Preprint]

Work in progress

• Camilotto, Nicolas, Thomas Delcey, and Aurélien Goutsmedt. (2026). Worlds behind Words: Text as Data for the History and Philosophy of Economics. Cambridge (UK): Cambridge University Press, Cambridge Elements, Under contract.
• Goutsmedt, Aurélien, and Matthieu Renault. (2025). Jacques Drèze and the European Commission: A Restless Voice for Full Employment (1985-1995). Workshop “Europe in Microscope”.

Software and data

• Delcey, Thomas, and Aurélien Goutsmedt. (2025). Becoming an Economist: A Database of French Economics PhDs. Zenodo.
• Goutsmedt, Aurélien, and Alexandre Truc. (2025). Digital History of Macroeconomics. Zenodo.
• Goutsmedt, Aurélien. (2024). anystyleR: Automated Bibliographic Reference Parsing and Cleaning. R package.
• Goutsmedt, Aurélien, Alexandre Truc, and François Claveau. (2023). biblionetwork: An R Package for Creating Different Types of Bibliometric Networks. R package.
• Goutsmedt, Aurélien, and Alexandre Truc. (2022). networkflow: Functions For A Workflow To Manipulate Networks. R package.

Other publications and working papers

• Fontan, Clément, and Aurélien Goutsmedt. (2025). Capital, labor, and technocratic neutrality: The ECB and inflation monsters (2010–2025). Mouvements, 120(2): 24–33.
• Goutsmedt, Aurélien. (2025). Book review: Taming the Cycles of Finance?: Central Banks and the Macro-prudential Shift in Financial Regulation. Competition & Change, 29(2): 290–292.
• Goutsmedt, Aurélien. (2024). Herbert Glejser - Obituary. European Economic Review, 170.
• Chassonnery-Zaigouche, Cléo, and Aurélien Goutsmedt. (2023). Symposium on Elisabeth Popp Berman’s Thinking Like an Economist. OEconomia - History, Methodology, Philosophy, 13(3): 909–919. [Preprint]
• Goutsmedt, Aurélien. (2019). James Forder, Macroeconomics and the Phillips Curve Myth. OEconomia - History, Methodology, Philosophy, 9(3): 589–594.
• Goutsmedt, Aurélien. (2017). Les macroéconomistes et la stagflation : Essais sur les transformations de la macroéconomie dans les années 1970. Thèse Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. [Preprint]
• Goutsmedt, Aurélien. (2017). Stagflation and the crossroad in macroeconomics: the struggle between structural and New Classical macroeconometrics. Documents de travail du Centre d’Economie de la Sorbonne. [Preprint]
• Goutsmedt, Aurélien, Erich Pinzon-Fuchs, Matthieu Renault, and Francesco Sergi. (2015). Criticizing the Lucas Critique: Macroeconometricians’ Response to Robert Lucas. Documents de travail du Centre d’Economie de la Sorbonne, 2015.59. [Preprint]

Teaching

2024 – 2026

Master dissertation supervision
ICHEC; UCLouvain; Paris 1

2024 - 2026

“Economic History and Geopolitical Issues”
B1, Management, ICHEC

2024 - 2026

“European Union - History, Culture and Institutions”
Master, Business Management International Track, ICHEC

2023 - 2026

“International Political Economy”
Master, International Relations, UCLouvain

2023

Invited international teacher
Doctoral lecture (6h), SESAM Doctoral School, Université de Lille
“Economists’ influence on policy decisions”

2023

“Growth and Business Cycles”
L3, international track, Université Côte d’Azur

2018 - 2025

“Research Practices Seminar”
M2 Economics and Human Sciences, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
Various sessions on Expertise, Text Mining, Economics of Science, Economics of Narratives

2013 - 2018

Teaching Assistant (Paris 1)
International Macroeconomics (L3), Microeconomics (L2), Monetary Economics (L2), Comparative Economic Theories (L1; L2)

Academic activities

Academic journals

Aug 2023 -

Advisory Board Cambridge Elements for the serie “History of Economics”

Sept 2019 -

Managing Editor OEconomia - History, Methodology, Philosophy
In charge of the Book Review section since September 2020

Reviewer for:
Cambridge University Press, Economica, European Economic Review, History of Economic Ideas, History of Political Economy, Journal of European Public Policy, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, Journal of the History of Economic Thought, Oxford Economic Papers, OEconomia, New Political Economy, Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology, Revue de la Régulation, Revue Economique, Revue Française de socio-économie, Science in Context

Seminars and conferences organisation

2027

Organizer of the ABSP congress

2017 -

Various activities for the REHPERE network
organizing workshops and seminars, managing twitter account and REHPERE website

2015 -

Organizer of international conferences
“The Boundaries of Economics: Epistemology and History”, Paris 1, May 2022

2015 -

Organizer of international conferences
“Theory, Measurement and Expertise - Edmond Malinvaud and the reconfigurations of Economic Theory, 1950-2000”, Paris 1, December 2016

2015 -

Organizer of international conferences
“Against Walras”, Walras International Association, Paris 1, September 2015

2015 - 2017

Organizer of Paris 1 Doctorissimes Seminar
seminars and one-day conferences for Ph.D. students

Administrative responsibilities

2026 -

Member of the ABSP board

2023 -

Coordinator of Political Economy Working Group at ABSP

2021 - 2023

Ph.D. students and Postdoc Representative within ISPOLE board

2020 – 2026

Elected member of the board of Charles Gide Association

2015 - 2018

Ph.D. students representative for the Centre d’Economie de la Sorbonne and the Economic Doctoral School of université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne

Presentations

Special sessions organised in international conferences

• “Navigating New Realities: The Political Economy of Monetary Policy Amidst Inflationary Trends”, Organisation of a panel (4 papers) for the Congress of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, University of Limerick, June 2024.
• “New Studies in Political Economy”, Organisation of a panel (12 papers) for the Congress of the Association Belge Francophone de Sciences Politique, Université de Liège, February 2024.
• “Debating Inflation since the Second World War”, Organisation of a special session (3 papers) for the congress of the Association Française de Sciences Economiques (AFSE), Sciences Po Paris, June 2023.
• “The Scientization of Central Banks”, Symposium (11 papers) for the congress of the European Society for the History of Science (ESHS), Université Libre de Bruxelles, September 2022.
• “Quantitative Histories of Economics”, Organisation of a special session (3 papers) for the congress of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought (ESHET), University of Padua, June 2022.

International conferences

• “Technical Services, technocratic authority, and the intellectual foundations of the European Green Deal”, Congress of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, Sciences Po Bordeaux, July 2026.
• “European economists’ identity: Towards a history of the European Economic Association”, Congress of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought, Université Côte d’Azur, May 2026.
• “One Sentence at a Time: A Quantitative History of Rationality in Economic Thought”, Congress of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought, Université Côte d’Azur, May 2026.
• “When Keynesianism Refused to Die : the Drèze-Malinvaud initiative and the European Commission”, Congress of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought, Université Côte d’Azur, May 2026.
• “La banque centrale européenne face à ses monstres : les transformations du cadrage de la stabilité des prix, 1998-2023”, Conference of the Mission Historique de la Banque de France - Les banques centrales, acteurs politiques ?, Bank of France, December 2024.
• “Redefining Scientization: Central banks between science and politics”, DVPW Kongress, University of Hannover, September 2024.
• “The costs of the war against inflation monsters: The ECB’s justifications of its interest rate hikes”, Council for European Studies Conference, Science Po Lyon/Université Lyon 2, July 2024.
• “Economists, Economic Knowledge and Central Banks”, Association Charles Gide pour l’Etude de la Pensée Economique (GIDE) Conference, Science Po Bordeaux, June 2024.
• “Redefining Scientization: Central banks between science and politics”, Congress of the ACFAS, University of Ottawa, May 2024.
• The ECB and the Inflation Monsters: Strategic Framing and the Responsibility Imperative (1998-2023), Post Keynesian Conference, Université de Lille, December 2023.
• “The costs of the war against inflation monsters: The ECB’s justifications of its interest rate hikes”, Finance & Society Conference, Vrije Universiteit Brussels, September 2023.
• “Becoming an economist: the evolution of the Ph.D. in France”, Journées Gide, Université Lyon 2, June 2023.
• “Programming Expertise: The Political Element in Micro-Simulation”, ESHET Congress, HEC Liège, June 2023.
• “Mapping Macroeconomics: A Digital History of Macroeconomics”, Iberian Association of the History of Economic Thought (AIHPE) Congress, Universitat de Barcelona, December 2022.
• “An Independent European Macroeconomics? A History of European Macroeconomics through the Lens of the European Economic Review”, The History of Economic Thought Society (THETS) Congress, University of Cambridge, August 2022.
• “An Independent European Macroeconomics? A History of European Macroeconomics through the Lens of the European Economic Review”, Association Charles Gide pour l’Etude de la Pensée Economique (GIDE) Conference, Université Paris 1, July 2022.
• “Mapping Macroeconomics: A Digital History of Macroeconomics”, History of Economics Society (HES) Congress, University of St. Thomas, Minneapolis, June 2022.
• “How the Phillips Curve Shaped Full Employment Policy in the 1970s: The Debates on the Humphrey-Hawkins Act” and “An Independent European Macroeconomics? A History of European Macroeconomics through the Lens of the European Economic Review”, HES Congress, University of Utrecht, December 2021.
• “To Change or Not to Change: The Evolution of Forecasting Models at the Bank of England”, History of Recent Economics Conference (HISRECO), ESSCA, Angers, November 2021.
• “Robert J. Gordon and the Introduction of the Natural Rate Hypothesis in the Keynesian Framework”, AFSE Congress, Paris School of Economics, May 2018.
• “Robert J. Gordon and the Introduction of the Natural Rate Hypothesis in the Keynesian Framework”, GIDE Conference, Université Côte d’Azur, December 2017.
• “Robert J. Gordon’s confrontation with the Phillips Curve and the Natural Rate Hypothesis”, AFSE Congress, Université Côte d’Azur, June 2017.
• “Reacting to the Lucas Critique: The Keynesians’ Pragmatic Replies”, Conference “Theory, Measurement and Expertise - Edmond Malinvaud and the reconfigurations of Economic Theory, 1950-2000”, Université Paris 1, December 2016.
• “Thomas Sargent face à Robert Lucas : une autre ambition pour la Nouvelle Economie Classique”, GIDE Conference, Université de Strasbourg, April 2016.
• “Criticizing the Lucas Critique: Macroeconometricians’ response to Robert Lucas”, Association Française d’Economie Politique (AFEP) Congress, Sciences Po Lyon, July 2015.
• “Criticizing the Lucas Critique: Macroeconometricians’ response to Robert Lucas”, ESHET Congress, Università Roma Tre, May 2015.

Invited workshops

• “When Keynesianism Refused to Die : the Drèze-Malinvaud initiative and the European Commission”, Workshop of the “Political Economy Working Group in Belgium”, ICHEC Brussels, June 2026.
• “Macroeconomics and the Building of European Economics since the 1970s”, Keynote Lecture ERMEES European Macroeconomics Workshop, Université de Strasbourg, December 2025.
• “A History of Rationality in Economics: a Computational Approach”, Workshop “Model Transfer”, University of Hannover (online), October 2025.
• “Jacques Drèze and the European Commission: A Restless Voice for Full Employment (1985-1995)”, Workshop “Europe under the Microscope”, Sciences Po Lille, October 2025.
• “A History of Rationality in Economics: a Computational Approach”, REHPERE conference, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, September 2025.
• “The costs of the war against inflation monsters: The ECB’s justifications of its interest rate hikes”, Workshop “Central Bank Independence in the 21st Century”, Sciences Po Paris, September 2024.
• “Programming Expertise: The Political Element in Micro-Simulation”, Workshop “Historicizing Interventionist Social Knowledge, 1950s-2000s”, Universität Luzern, January 2023.
• “Robert J. Gordon and the Introduction of the Natural Rate Hypothesis in the Keynesian Framework”, Workshop “History, Money, and the Macroeconomy”, University of West England, Bristol, June 2018.
• “An Agenda without a Plan. Robert E. Lucas’s Trajectory through the Public Debate”, Workshop “Economist and Public Reason”, Université de Lausanne, May 2018.
• “Stagflation and the Crossroad in Macroeconomics: The Struggle between Structural and New Classical Macroeconometrics”, Workshop “History of Macroeconometric Modelling”, University of Utrecht, April 2017.
• “The New Classical Explanation of Stagflation: A Psychological Way of Thinking”, Workshop Macroeconomics in Perspective II, Université Lille 1, January 2016.

Invited seminars

• “Visualisations, réseaux et application interactive : Explorer l’histoire du concept de rationalité en économie”, Séminaire Quantitativisme Critique, Université Paris-Saclay, January 2026.
• “Redefining Scientization: Central banks between science and politics”, Skape Seminar, University of Edinburgh, May 2025.
• “Becoming Economists: Building a database of PhD in Economics”, DEFI Seminar, Université Côte d’Azur, April 2025.
• “Mapping Macroeconomics: A Digital History of Macroeconomics”, History of Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics (H2M) Seminar, Université Paris 1, April 2023.
• “The Scientization of Central Banks”, Midi-CIRST Seminar, Université du Québec à Montréal, February 2023.
• “The Role and Place of Economic Research at the Bank of England”, History Department Seminar, Maastricht University, February 2023.
• “Economic Modelling at the Bank of England”, GRAPPES Seminar, Science Po Lille, November 2021.
• “The Role and Place of Economic Research at the Bank of England”, H2M Seminar, Université Paris 1, January 2021.
• “The Role and Place of Economic Research at the Bank of England”, Central Bank Expertise and Finance Stability CEE Seminar, Sciences Po Paris, November 2020.
• “How the Phillips Curve Shaped Full Employment Policy in the 1970s: The Debates on the Humphrey-Hawkins Act”, Canada Research Chair in Applied Epistemology Seminar, Université de Sherbrooke, July 2020.
• “The Role and Place of Economic Research at the Bank of England”, Midi-CIRST Seminar, Université du Québec à Montréal, May 2020.
• “An Agenda Without a Plan: Robert E Lucas’s Trajectory Through the Public Debate”, History of Political Economy Lunch Seminar, Duke University, September 2018.

Skills

Languages

French (native), English (fluent), Italian (intermediate), German (intermediate), Spanish (intermediate)

Writing and presentation

Zotero, Pandoc, LaTeX and Markdown/RMarkdown/Quarto

R Programming

Statistics, text-mining, visualisations, webscraping, machine learning, creation of R packages in bibliometrics and network analysis

Web programming

Creation of static website (Jekyll/Hugo), HTML and CSS (basic)