Mathieu Guigourez

PhD Candidate in Economics at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, under the supervision of Dorian Jullien.
My PhD thesis is entitled Economic Rationality, Ecologic Responsibility.

Research

• My research revolves around conceptualizing an individual responsibility regarding ecological challenges without solely relying on monetary incentives or political enforcement.

• I am at the crossroad between ecological economics and philosophy of economics.

• For now, my main focus revolves around the methods of pricing carbon emissions and their normative assumptions. As such, I am studying the Stern-Nordhaus controversy around the discount rate and the optimal Social Cost of Carbon; and also in carbon taxes that seek to include a level of environmental responsibility.

• Besides, I am also studying the conceptualizations of individual commitments in Rational Choice Theories, emphasizing on climate-related issues.

• I am also interested in feminist epistemology and standpoint epistemologies.

Publications and working papers

• Guigourez, M. Commitment, Kantian Economics and Climate Change: Rethinking Rational Choice and Individual Responsibility
(https://doi.org/10.1080/1350178X.2025.2555821)

• Guigourez, M. 20$ a Ton of Carbon ? The Stern – Nordhaus Controversy: Epistemological and Ethical Issues. (Working Paper available upon request)

• Guigourez, M. Taxing Carbon, Framing Responsibility: How Framing, Licensing,
and Beliefs Shape Individual Responsibility under Carbon Taxes

• Cervesato, M. and Guigourez, M. Accounting for Ecological Choices through Individual Commitments in Collective Actions: The KOVENANT Model

Workshops and Conferences

• Third Summer School in Philosophy of Economics, Co-organized by Lake Como School, INEM, Insubria University, and the University of Milan. 23-28^th June 2024. Paper Presentation, Individual Responsibility under Normative Uncertainty: Can We Gamble on Climate Change ?

• 7^thInternational Conference of Economic Philosophy, « Market(s) and Democracy » organized by Reims University. 29-31^st May 2024.
Paper Presentation, Individual Responsibility under Normative Uncertainty: Can We Gamble on Climate Change ?

• Organizer of a Young Scholar’s Initiative Workshop, “Individual and Collective Issues in the History and Philosophy of Economics”. 28^th May 2024

• Responsible Economics and Policymaking Workshop, organized by the TINT – Centre for Philosophy of Social Science, in collaboration with the IRN project “Justice and Interest” and the “Economics as Serviceable Social Knowledge” project. 26-27^th October 2023. Helsinki University

• 6^thInternational Conference of Economic Philosophy, « Economic Philosophy in the Age of the Anthropocene » organized by Sciences Po Lille, Lille University and CLERSE (UMR 8019). 29-1^st July 2023.
Paper Presentation, 10$ a Ton of Carbon ? The Stern-Nordhaus Controversy : epistemological and ethical issues.

• Ecologizing Economics: Reflexivity, Methods and Interdisciplinarity in the Age of Anthropocene Workshop, organized by the Young Scholar Initiative. 28^th June 2023. Sciences Po Lille.
Paper Presentation, 10$ a Ton of Carbon ? The Stern-Nordhaus Controversy : epistemological and ethical issues.

Teachings

General introduction to economics (1^styear, University Panthéon-Sorbonne)

• Introduction to microeconomics (how a market works: supply and demand curves, supply/demand shocks, elasticities, surplus, introduction of a tax/subsidy into a market ecc. The nature of competition: behavior of firms in perfect competition; brief overview of monopoly and duopoly).

• Introduction to macroeconomics (neoclassical theory: labor market, financial market, money market, Say’s Law and macroeconomic closure. Keynesian model, multipliers, fiscal and budgetary policy).

Mathematics and economic modelisation (1^st year, University Panthéon-Sorbonne)

• Teaching the use of mathematics by an economist.

• Method for solving a system of linear equations by substitution.

• Identify and characterize potential extrema or candidates for extremum.

Microeconomics (2^nd year, University Panthéon-Sorbonne)

• Imperfect competition (Natural / Regulated / Discriminating Monopolies; Cournot’s Duopoly, Bertrand’s Duopoly etc.)

• Game theory (Nash equilibrium, strategic behaviours with perfect and imperfect information)

Contacts

Maison des Sciences Économiques – Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
112 Boulevard de l’hôpital, Paris 75013