raphael-fevre

Raphaël Fèvre

Associate Professor

GREDEG, CNRS, Université Côte d’Azur

raphael.fevre@univ-cotedazur.fr

Economics and politics Economic Philisophy History of european economic thought Ordoliberalism

Walter Eucken Wilhelm Röpke John Maynard Keynes François Perroux Georges Bataille

About

My research focuses on 20th century economic thought. In particular, I am interested in how the tendency of fascination vs. repulsion in the face of the rise of authoritarian regimes in Europe helped to shape some of the central economic debates of the interwar and post-war periods.

At the end of 2017, I completed my doctoral thesis tracing the intellectual history of German ordoliberalism (1932-1950), under the joint supervision of the University of Lausanne and the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne. My thesis focuses in particular on the epistemological and philosophical foundations of economic theory and policy recommendations, showing that “power” was a key element in understanding ordoliberal political economy as a whole.

More recently, I have pursued my research themes through new projects focusing on French economic thought (from the 1930s to the 1960s). Within the project “Expertise and Economic Discipline under Vichy” (EDEV) conducted with Nicolas Brisset, we are working on a history of economic thought and economic expertise under the Vichy regime. We attempt both to question the way in which a certain economic discourse supported the regime by providing it with “scientific” foundations, and to understand how this regime was able to provide the institutional conditions for economic expertise. Then, with Thomas M. Mueller, we look at the birth of French welfare economics, with a particular focus on the work of Maurice Allais and the economists of his entourage (Gérard Debreu and Marcel Boiteux in particular). Finally, I am interested in the general economy developed by the philosopher Georges Bataille, and in particular in the way he related to the academic economic thought of his time.

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Publications

2023

  • Brisset, N., Fèvre, R., & Juille, T. (2023). Faire la Science de l’Homme, défaire la sociologie durkheimienne. François Perroux, la Fondation Carrel et les sciences sociales sous Vichy. Philosophia Scientiæ. Travaux d’Histoire Et De Philosophie Des Sciences, 27-1, 163–193.

  • Eckes, C., Brisset, N., Ariouet, C. F., & Fèvre, R. (2023). Introduction. Lever la parenthèse Vichy en histoire des sciences. Philosophia Scientiæ. Travaux d’Histoire Et De Philosophie Des Sciences, 27-1, 3–31.

  • Fèvre, R., & Mueller, T. M. (2023). The emerging discipline of public economics in postwar France. The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 30(5), 739–763.

  • Fèvre, R., & Mueller, T. M. (2023). Toward a “Prodigious Revival of French Economics”? Allais, Debreu, and the Dead Loss Controversy (1943–51). History of Political Economy, 55(1), 1–38.

2022

  • Brisset, N., Fèvre, R., & Jean, P. (2022). Learning and Forgetting Marx’s Lesson: François Perroux’s Readings of Karl Marx. Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology: Including a Symposium on the Work of François Perroux, 40, 81–108.

  • Fèvre, R. (2022). The Madman and the Economist (s): Georges Bataille and François Perroux as French Critiques of the Marshall Plan. Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 44(3), 344–369.

  • Fèvre, R. (2022). A Political Economy of Power: Ordoliberalism in Context, 1932-1950. Oxford University Press.

2021

  • Brisset, N., & Fèvre, R. (2021). Peregrinations of a Corporatist Economist: François Perroux’s Travels in Fascist Europe. History of Political Economy, 53(4), 745–782.

  • Brisset, N., & Fèvre, R. (2021). Les économistes face à l’État français. Politix, 133(1), 29–54.

  • Brisset, N., & Fèvre, R. (2021). Prendre la parole sous l’État français-Le cas de François Perroux. Revue d’Histoire De La Pensée Économique, 2021(11), 25–56.

  • Fèvre, R. (2021). Eucken’s Competition with Keynes: Beyond the Ordoliberal Allergy to the Keynesian Medicine. In Political Economy and International Order in Interwar Europe (pp. 25–57). Palgrave Macmillan.

2020

  • Brisset, N., & Fèvre, R. (2020). The “community of labour” in troubled times (1926–1944): François Perroux’s irrational foundations of economic expertise. The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 1–27.

  • Brisset, N., & Fèvre, R. (2020). The Vichy Opportunity: François Perroux’s Institutional and Intellectual Entrepreneurship. Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology: Including a Symposium on Economists and Authoritarian Regimes in the 20th Century.

  • Fèvre, R. (2020). The Routledge companion to literature and economics: edited by Matt Seybold and Michelle Chihara, Abingdon and New York, Routledge, 2019, 424 pp.,\pounds 175 (Hardback), ISBN 9781138190870. Routledge.

  • Fèvre, R. (2020). Power as an epistemological obstacle: Walter Eucken’s quest for an interest-proof economic science. Journal of Economic Methodology, 27(4), 330–350.

2019

  • Baranzini, R., & Fèvre, R. (2019). Walras as an ordoliberal? The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 26(2), 380–413.

  • Brisset, N., Fèvre, R., & Juille, T. (2019). Les années noires de la “Science de l’Homme”. François Perroux, la Fondation Carrel et l’appropriation de la sociologie. Groupe de REcherche en Droit, Economie, Gestion (GREDEG CNRS).

  • Commun, P., & Fèvre, R. (2019). Walter Eucken, entre économie et politique.

  • Fèvre, R. (2019). The birth of austerity. German ordoliberalism and contemporary neoliberalism. Routledge.

  • Fèvre, R. (2019). L’évolution du concept de concurrence d’Adam Smith à Friedrich Hayek. Regards Croises Sur l’Economie, 2, 24–35.

2018

  • Fèvre, R. (2018). Was Wilhelm Röpke Really a Proto-Keynesian? In Wilhelm Röpke (1899–1966) (pp. 109–120). Springer.

  • Fèvre, R. (2018). Keynes and Eucken on Capitalism and Power. In Power in Economic Thought (pp. 321–347). Springer.

  • Fèvre, R. (2018). Denazifying the Economy: Ordoliberals on the Economic Policy Battlefield (1946–50). History of Political Economy, 50(4), 679–707.

2017

  • Fevre, R. (2017). L’ordolibéralisme (1932-1950): une économie politique du pouvoir [PhD thesis]. Université de Lausanne, Faculté des hautes études commerciales.

  • Fèvre, R. (2017). Le marché sans pouvoir: au c\oeur du discours ordolibéral. Revue d’Économie Politique, 127(1), 119–151.

  • Fèvre, R. (2017). Walter Eucken et Wilhelm Röpke face à la nouvelle Question Sociale. 3, 209–240.

  • Fèvre, R. (2017). From barter to monetary economy: Ordoliberal views on the post-WWII German economic order. In War in the History of Economic Thought (pp. 218–238). Routledge.

2016

  • Fèvre, R. (2016). Jean SOLCHANY, Wilhelm Röpke, l’autre Hayek: Aux origines du néolibéralisme. Revue Européenne Des Sciences Sociales. European Journal of Social Sciences, 54-1, 277–280.

  • Fèvre, R. (2016). Patricia Commun, Les Ordolibéraux: Histoire d’un libéralisme à l’allemande. Œconomia. History, Methodology, Philosophy, 6-4, 571–577.

2015

  • Fèvre, R. (2015). Du libéralisme historique à la crise sociale du XXe siècle. Revue Économique, 66(5), 901–931.

  • Fèvre, R. (2015). Retour sur le libéralisme conservateur de Wilhelm Röpke. Revue Européenne Des Sciences Sociales. European Journal of Social Sciences, 53-2, 147–190.

2012

  • Fèvre, R. (2012). Serge Audier, Néo-libéralisme (s). Œconomia. History, Methodology, Philosophy, 2-4, 517–522.