by Institut de Recherches philosophiques de Lyon (IRPhiL) & GATE Lyon Saint-Etienne,
Lyon 2 University & Lyon 3 University & Jean Monnet University
The Lyon Saint-Etienne site has researchers working at the frontier between economics and philosophy in several of its establishments. The ‘Economics and Philosophy at Lyon Saint-Etienne’ workshop has been designed as an annual scientific event to bring these researchers together around a theme that will change each year.
The 2026 Edition: “Economic expertise and democracy”
The 2026 edition, with support of the AMI SHS Democis and the PEPR Maths-Vives CONDORCET, will focus on a cross-disciplinary theme: ‘Economic expertise and Democracy”. The workshop is likely to be of interest not only to researchers in the field of ‘economics and philosophy’, but also, more broadly, to specialists in political philosophy, philosophy of science, and economists interested in the evaluation of public policy.
All colleagues and students from the doctoral schools of philosophy and economics at Lyon and Saint-Etienne are welcome to attend the presentations, upon registration.
Date. June 1-2, 2026
Venue. Université Lyon 3, Faculté de philosophie, Le Palais, 15 quai Claude Bernard, 69007 Lyon, Salle Starck
Registration. Participation is free of charge, but registration is required at your earliest convenience. Please just write an email to Mikael.Cozic@univ-lyon3.fr
Program
Monday, June 1, 14:00-16:00.
Expertise and Taxation (Chair: Benoît Tarroux)
Alain Trannoy (EHESS, AMSE). Is axiologic neutrality possible in the study of taxation ?
Pierre Boyer (Ecole Polytechnique, CREST, IPP). How to design politically feasible and welfare-improving tax reforms?
Monday, June 1, 16:30-18:30.
Scientific expertise (Chair: Mathis Nicole Desmau)
Hannah Hilligardt (University of Bern). How to do political philosophy of science
Greg Lusk (Durham university, CHESS). Adequacy-for-purpose and social values in science
Tuesday, June 2, 9:00-12:00.
Economic expertise (Chair: Antoinette Baujard)
Johan Christensen (Universiteit Leiden). The influence of economic expertise in policy-making: empirical perspective
Béatrice Cherrier (CNRS, CREST). Economists as taxation, climate and monetary policy experts since World War II: conclusion from a few case studies.
Mathis Nicole Desmau (Université Lyon 3, IRPhiL). Value judgments and economic expertise: revisiting the division of labor model
Tuesday, June 2, 13:30-15:30.
Expertise and Climate (Chair: Mikael Cozic)
Stéphane Zuber (CNRS, Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne). Are economists shaping climate policy?
Antonin Pottier (EHESS, CIRED). Which economic expertise is relevant for climate change policy advice?
Tuesday, June 2, 15:30-16:30.
Round table
Organizers
Mikael Cozic, Université Lyon 3 Jean Moulin, Institut de Recherches philosophiques de Lyon (IRPHIL)
Mathis Nicole Desmau, Université Lyon 3 Jean Moulin, Institut de Recherches philosophiques de Lyon (IRPhiL)
Antoinette Baujard, Université Jean Monnet Saint-Etienne, GATE Lyon Saint-Etienne
Benoit Tarroux, Université Lumière Lyon 2, GATE Lyon Saint-Etienne
The 2025 Edition: ‘Preferences and welfare’
The 2025 edition will focus on a cross-disciplinary theme: ‘Preferences and welfare’, likely to be of interest not only to researchers in the field of ‘economics and philosophy’, but also, more broadly, to specialists in political philosophy and economists interested in the evaluation of public policy.
All colleagues and students from the doctoral schools of philosophy and economics at Lyon and Saint-Etienne are welcome to attend the presentations.
Date: May 20th, 2025
Organizers
- Antoinette Baujard, Université Saint-Etienne, GATE Lyon Saint-Etienne
- Mikael Cozic, Université Lyon 3 Jean Moulin, Institut de Recherches philosophiques de Lyon (IRPHIL)
- Benoit Tarroux, Université Lyon 2, GATE Lyon Saint-Etienne
Venue: Université Jean Monnet, GATE & Ecole d’économie, Bâtiment Michelet, 77 rue Michelet, 42000 Saint-Etienne
Registration: Participation is free of charge, but registration with the organizers is required. Please do so at your earliest convenience and before May 16th, 2025.
Speakers: The speakers of the 2025 edition of the workshop are :
- Daniel Hausman, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Mikael Cozic, Université Lyon 3, IRPHiL, https://facdephilo.univ-lyon3.fr/m-mikael-cozic
- Franz Dietrich, CNRS CSE et PSE, franzdietrich.net
- Florence Jusot, Université Paris Dauphine, LED, leda/… /florence-jusot.html
- Stéphane Gonzalez, Université Jean Monnet, GATE Lyon Saint-Etienne, https://sites.google.com/site/gonzalezstephaneuniv/
Program
9h30-10h : Welcome address
10h-11h15. Dan Hausman (University of Wisconsin-Madison). Preferences Reconsidered
11h15-11h30. Coffee break
11h30-12h30. Mikael Cozic (Université Lyon 3, IRPHiL). Functionalism and preferences
12h30-13h45. Lunch break
13h45-14h45. Franz Dietrich (CNRS CES & PSE). Welfare vs. Utility
14h45-15h. Coffee break
15h-16h. Florence Jusot (Université Paris Dauphine, LED). Social preferences in health care financing: Evidence from the SOPHEA survey
16h-16h15. Coffee break
16h15-17h15. Stéphane Gonzalez (Universisté Jean Monnet, GATE Lyon Saint-Etienne). Fair allocation and counterfactual analyses
17h15-17h30. Goodbye address, drink and sweets
The 2024 Edition: “Normativity of economics and public policy”
The 2024 edition will focus on a cross-disciplinary theme: ‘Normativity in economics and public policy’, likely to be of interest not only to researchers in the field of ‘economics and philosophy’, but also, more broadly, to specialists in political philosophy and economists interested in the evaluation of public policy.
All colleagues and students from the doctoral schools of philosophy and economics at Lyon and Saint-Etienne are welcome to attend the presentations.
Date : 14 June 2024
Organizers
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- Antoinette Baujard, University of Saint-Etienne, GATE Lyon Saint-Etienne
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- Mikael Cozic, Université Lyon 3 Jean Moulin, Institut de Recherches philosophiques de Lyon (IRPHIL)
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- Benoit Tarroux, Université Lyon 2, GATE Lyon Saint-Etienne
Venue : MILC, 35 Rue Raulin, 69007 Lyon, 5th floor, GATE seminar room
Registration : Participation is free of charge, but registration with the organisers is required before 15 June 2024.
Programme
8h30-9h : Welcome address
9h-10h : Erik Schokkaert (KU Leuven, Department of economics).
Empirical social choice: uncovering or building preferences?
10h-11h : Antoinette Baujard (Université Jean Monnet, CNRS GATE Lyon Saint-Etienne).
On the rank reversal problem in inequality measures
11h-11h20 : Coffee Break
11h20-12h20 : Guilhem Lecouteux (Université Côte d’Azur, CNRS GREDEG).
Codesign of behavioural public policies: can expert-citizens be both ‘experts’ and ‘citizens’?
12h20-14h : Lunch
14h-15h : Nicolas Gravel (Aix-Marseille School of Economics).
On Kantian optimization
15h-15h20 : Coffee break
15h20-16h20 : Constanze Binder (Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics (EIPE), Erasmus School of Philosophy, Erasmus University Rotterdam and invited professor at Jean Monnet University Saint-Etienne).
Markets, Opportunity and Voluntary Choice
16h20-17h20 : Roberto Fumagalli (King’s College London; LSE; Visiting Scholar at University of Pennsylvania).
A Defence of Preference-Based Evaluations of Welfare in Public Policy
Un grand merci à Marc Ducourtioux (infographie de l’Université Lyon 3) pour cette affiche.
Philosophy and economics in Lyon Saint-Etienne, other events
Fourth International conference of philosophy of economics, 2018, on “Norms and normativity”