Marc Fleurbaey (born 11 October 1961) is a French researcher specialized in

normative economics Normativity is the phenomenon in human societies of designating some actions or outcomes as good, desirable, or permissible, and others as bad, undesirable, or impermissible. A norm in this sense means a standard for evaluating or making judgme ...

and

social choice theory Social choice theory is a branch of welfare economics that extends the Decision theory, theory of rational choice to collective decision-making. Social choice studies the behavior of different mathematical procedures (social welfare function, soc ...

. He has been researcher and professor in the United Kingdom, France and the United States since 1994. He is currently professor at the Paris School of Economics.

Education

Fleurbaey graduated from the ENSAE ParisTech (ENSAE) and holds a

PhD A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD, DPhil; or ) is a terminal degree that usually denotes the highest level of academic achievement in a given discipline and is awarded following a course of graduate study and original research. The name of the deg ...

Economics Economics () is a behavioral science that studies the Production (economics), production, distribution (economics), distribution, and Consumption (economics), consumption of goods and services. Economics focuses on the behaviour and interac ...

under the supervision of Philippe Mongin from the French School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS).

Career

Fleurbaey is a member of the

French National Centre for Scientific Research The French National Centre for Scientific Research (, , CNRS) is the French state research organisation and is the largest fundamental science agency in Europe. In 2016, it employed 31,637 staff, including 11,137 tenured researchers, 13,415 engi ...

. From 2011 to 2020, he was Robert E. Kuenne Professor of Economics and Humanistic Studies and Professor of Public Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs,

Princeton University Princeton University is a private university, private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial ...

. Since 2020 he is professor at the Paris School of Economics. Fleurbaey has been editor-in-chief for Economics & Philosophy. He is currently the editor-in-chief for Social Choice and Welfare, two journals for

political philosophy Political philosophy studies the theoretical and conceptual foundations of politics. It examines the nature, scope, and Political legitimacy, legitimacy of political institutions, such as State (polity), states. This field investigates different ...

and philosophy of economics.

Public engagement

Fleurbaey has occupied counseling positions at the

World Bank The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans and Grant (money), grants to the governments of Least developed countries, low- and Developing country, middle-income countries for the purposes of economic development ...

, the UN, and the

OECD The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD; , OCDE) is an international organization, intergovernmental organization with 38 member countries, founded in 1961 to stimulate economic progress and international trade, wor ...

and has participated in different international reports on societal topics such as welfare, social progress, and

climate change Present-day climate change includes both global warming—the ongoing increase in Global surface temperature, global average temperature—and its wider effects on Earth's climate system. Climate variability and change, Climate change in ...

. Fleurbaey publishes regularly in French-speaking and English-speaking media: Huffington Post (fr), Huffington Post (en),

Le Monde (; ) is a mass media in France, French daily afternoon list of newspapers in France, newspaper. It is the main publication of Le Monde Group and reported an average print circulation, circulation of 480,000 copies per issue in 2022, including ...

Libération (), popularly known as ''Libé'' (), is a daily newspaper in France, founded in Paris by Jean-Paul Sartre and Serge July in 1973 in the wake of the protest movements of May 1968 in France, May 1968. Initially positioned on the far left of Fr ...

, La vie des idées, La Croix, Project Syndicate, The Conversation (fr), The Conversation (en),

The American Prospect ''The American Prospect'' is a daily online and bimonthly print American political and public policy magazine dedicated to American modern liberalism and Progressivism in the United States, progressivism. Based in Washington, D.C., ''The America ...

LSE US Centre’s daily blog on American Politics and Policy
and the

World Economic Forum The World Economic Forum (WEF) is an international non-governmental organization, international advocacy non-governmental organization and think tank, based in Cologny, Canton of Geneva, Switzerland. It was founded on 24 January 1971 by German ...

. Ahead of the 2012 French presidential election, Fleurbaey co-signed an appeal of several economists in support of candidate

François Hollande François Gérard Georges Nicolas Hollande (; born 12 August 1954) is a French politician who served as President of France from 2012 to 2017. Before his presidency, he was First Secretary of the Socialist Party (France), First Secretary of th ...

Awards and honours

* 2016: Docteur honoris causa Louvain Catholic University

Bibliography

Fleurbaey has authored or co-authored several books and journal articles. Among them we can cite the following books: * Marc Fleurbaey et al., '' Un manifeste pour le progrès social'', La Découverte, 2018; * Marc Fleurbaey, Matthew Adler,
The Oxford Handbook of Well-Being and Public Policy
''

Oxford University Press Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford. It is the largest university press in the world. Its first book was printed in Oxford in 1478, with the Press officially granted the legal right to print books ...

, 2016; * Marc Fleurbaey, Didier Blanchet, ''Beyond GDP
Measuring Welfare and Assessing Sustainability
',

, 2013;

Notes and references

External links

Marc Fleurbaey's Google Scholar
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