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Quentin Couix

Postdoctoral researcher

Centre d'économie de la Sorbonne
Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne

quentin.couix@gmail.com

Ecological economics Energy and natural resources History and methodology of economics

Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen Robert Ayres Robert Solow Joseph Stiglitz

About

My work questions the way economic theory tries to understand the material bases of development, and whether it is sustainable or not. I focus on the school of ecological economics, and more particularly on approaches that establish links between economics and thermodynamics (physics of energy and matter). But I am also interested in the various controversies that have opposed this current to the neoclassical theory of natural resources.

From a historical point of view, my research deals with the period going from the 1970s to the present. But its ambition is mainly epistemological and methodological, questioning both the analytical tools used to represent production and the interdisciplinary relations they assume between economics and physics.

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Publications

2021

  • Couix, Q. (2021). Models as ‘Analytical Similes’: On Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen’s Contribution to Economic Methodology. Journal of Economic Methodology.

  • Couix, Q., & Giraud, G. (2021). La difficile conversion à l’écologie de la recherche en économie. Annales Des Mines - Responsabilité Et Environnement, 101, 21–24.

2020

  • Couix, Q. (2020). Georgescu-Roegen’s Flow-Fund Theory of Production in Retrospect. Ecological Economics, 176.

2019

  • Couix, Q. (2019). Natural Resources in the Theory of Production: The Georgescu-Roegen/Daly versus Solow/Stiglitz Controversy. The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 26(6), 1341–1378.

  • Couix, Q. (2019). L’énergie et les fonctions de production agrégées : perspectives historique et méthodologique. Document De Travail Du Centre d’Economie De La Sorbonne, 2019.27.

2018

  • Couix, Q. (2018). From Methodology to Practice (and Back): Georgescu-Roegen’s Philosophy of Economics and the Flow-Fund Model. Document De Travail Du Centre d’Economie De La Sorbonne, 2018.21.

  • Couix, Q. (2018). The Role of Natural Resources in Production: Georgescu-Roegen/Daly versus Solow/Stiglitz. Document De Travail Du Centre d’Economie De La Sorbonne, 2018.01.