guilhem-lecouteux

Guilhem Lecouteux

Associate professor

GREDEG, Université Côte d'Azur

guilhem.lecouteux@unice.fr

Normative economics Behavioral economics Game theory Rationality Addictions Nudge and boosts

About

I am associate professor in economics since 2016 at Université Côte d’Azur (formerly Université Nice Sophia Antipolis), after having written a thesis in 2015 on the normative issues raised by behavioral economics, under the supervision of Francis Bloch and Robert Sugden. Before coming to Nice, I held a teaching associate position in 2015-2016 at the University of Bristol. I am co-director of the double master in Sociology-Economics offered by the Université Côte d’Azur, and I direct the master in behavioral and digital economics. Since February 2021, I am also in charge of international relations at EUR ELMI (the faculty of economics and management of the Université Côte d’Azur). My research focuses on behavioral economics, normative economics, the history of economic thought, and game theory, and aims to study (i) the formation of preferences and beliefs of economic agents, as well as (ii) the normative and policy implications of the endogeneity of preferences and beliefs. In particular, I am interested in the growing role of behavioural sciences in the design of public policies (including the use of nudges and boosts) and in the issues of ethical issues that these raise. Since 2020, I have been piloting a project involving economists, psychologists, and doctors, focusing on the prevention of risky behaviors and the fight against addictions among 18-25 year olds.

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Publications

2024

  • Lecouteux, G., & Mitrouchev, I. (2024). The View from Manywhere: Normative Economics with Context-Dependent Preferences. Economics & Philosophy.

2023

  • Lecouteux, G. (2023). The Homer economicus narrative: from cognitive psychology to individual public policies. Journal of Economic Methodology, 30(2), 176–187.

  • Priolo, D., Milhabet, I., Bertolino, M., Juille, T., Jullien, D., Lecouteux, G., Rafaı̈ Ismaël, & Thérouanne, P. (2023). Would you like some coffee with your sugar? A natural field experiment on the efficiency and acceptability of setting zero sugars as a default in coffee-vending machines. Comprehensive Results in Social Psychology, 7(1-2), 25–41.

2022

  • Lecouteux, G. (2022). Reconciling normative and behavioural economics: the problem that cannot be solved. In S. Badiei & A. Grivaux (Eds.), The Positive and the Normative in Economic Thought. Routledge.

2021

  • Lecouteux, G. (2021). Welfare economics in large worlds: welfare and public policies in an uncertain environment. In H. Kincaid & D. Ross (Eds.), A Modern Guide to Philosophy of Economics (pp. 208–233). Edward Elgar Publishing.

  • Lecouteux, G. (2021). Behavioral Welfare Economics and Consumer Sovereignty. In C. Heilmann & J. Reiss (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Economics (pp. 56–66). Routledge.

  • Lecouteux, G. (2021). Welfare economics in large worlds: welfare and public policies in an uncertain environment. In H. Kincaid & D. Ross (Eds.), Elgar Modern Guide to the Philosophy of Economics. Elgar.

2018

  • Lecouteux, G. (2018). Bayesian Game Theorists and Non Bayesian Players. European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 25(6), 1420–1454.

  • Lecouteux, G. (2018). What Does ’We’ Want? Team Reasoning, Game Theory, and Unselfish Behaviours. Revue d’Économie Politique, 128(3), 311–332.

2017

  • Larrouy, L., & Lecouteux, G. (2017). Mindreading and Endogenous Beliefs in Games. Journal of Economic Methodology, 24(3), 318–343.

  • Lecouteux, G. (2017). Review of Stefan Heidl, Philosophical Problems of Behavioural Economics. Œconomia. History, Methodology, Philosophy, 7(1), 143–148.

2016

  • Infante, G., Lecouteux, G., & Sugden, R. (2016). Preference Purification and the Inner Rational Agent: A Critique of the Conventional Wisdom of Behavioural Welfare Economics. Journal of Economic Methodology, 23(1), 1–25.

  • Infante, G., Lecouteux, G., & Sugden, R. (2016). ‘On the Econ Within’: A Reply to Daniel Hausman. Journal of Economic Methodology, 23(1), 33–37.

  • Lecouteux, G. (2016). From Homo Economicus to Homo Psychologicus: The Paretian Foundations of Behavioural Paternalism. Œconomia. History, Methodology, Philosophy, 6(2), 175–200.

2015

  • Lecouteux, G. (2015). PhD Thesis Summary: Reconciling Normative and Behavioural Economics. Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics, 8(2), 117–120.

  • Lecouteux, G. (2015). In Search of Lost Nudges. Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 6(3), 397–408.

  • Lecouteux, G., & Moulin, L. (2015). To Gain or Not To Lose? Tuition Fees for Loss Averse Students. Economics Bulletin, 35(2), 1005–1019.