Nicolas Vallois
Associate Professor
CRIISEA Université Picardie Jules Verne
Jewish statistics Jewish history Neuroeconomics Behavioural Economics
Jacob Lestschinsky Arthur Ruppin Werner Sombart Simon Kuznets
About
My current research focuses on the history of “Jewish statistics” or “Jewish social sciences”, which refers to the important development of statistical studies of Jewish populations that began to emerge in Europe and the United States in the second half of the XIXth century. I am interested in the theoretical influences of this current of research and in the way in which it gradually developed into an autonomous intellectual field. My work is therefore related to the history of economics and statistics, but also to cultural history since I am more generally interested in economic representations and stereotypes associated with Jews in economic thought. My previous research was in the history of neuroeconomics and behavioral economics.
Publications
2023
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Vallois, N. (2023). Yiddish and Social Science at the Economic-Statistical section of the YIVO, 1926-1939. Jewish History, 37(3-4), 1–35.
2022
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Vallois, N. (2022). Non-proletarianization theories of the Jewish worker (1902-1939). Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 44(4), 527–555.
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Vallois, N. (2022). Statistics, race, and essentialism in the debate over Jewish employment structure (1905-1939). Jewish Social Studies, 27(1), 185–225.
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Vallois, N. (2022). “Floating Jews”—The luftmentsh as an Economic Character.". Œconomia, 12(2), 275–314.
2021
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Vallois, N. (2021). La place paradoxale du religieux dans les « statistiques juives » au début du XXe siècle - Le cas de Yakov Leshchinsky. Archives De Sciences Sociales Des Religions, 195, 83–104.
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Vallois, N. (2021). Jewish Social Science and the Analysis of Jewish Statistics in the Early 20th Century. Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 43(1), 1–26.
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Vallois, C., Nicolas; Chassonery-Zaïgouche. (2021). ’There is nothing wrong about being money grubbing!’ Milton Friedman’s provocative ’Capitalism and the Jews’ in context (1972-88). History of Political Economy, 53(2).
2018
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Vallois, N., & Jullien, D. (2018). A History of Statistical Methods in Experimental Economics. European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 25(6).
2014
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Jullien, D., & Vallois, N. (2014). A Probabilistic Ghost In the Experimental Machine. Journal of Economic Methodology, 21(3), 232–250.