Curriculum Vitae (PDF)
Current Position
- Creighton University (July 2023-July 2024) – Visiting Assistant Professor, Faculty Fellow
- Heider College of Business and Menard Family Institute for Economic Inquiry
Previous Position
- Duke University (August 2021- June 2023) – Visiting Scholar / Archivist
- Center for the History of Political Economy and Rubenstein Library.
Education
- Université Lumière Lyon 2 (2019-2022) – PhD, Economics
- Defended May 23, 2022.
- Dissertation: “Macroeconomics and the rise of mathematical thinking: solutions and conflicts in early economic models (1930s-1950s).”
- Université Lumière Lyon 2 (2018-2019) – Master’s degree
- Major: Theories and history of economics in society.
- Master’s thesis: “Birth and Diffusion of Stability Analysis.”
- École Normale Supérieure (ENS) of Lyon (2017-2018) – Master’s degree
- Major: History of political thought. ENS is a highly selective, top tier higher education institution.
- Master’s thesis: “Jacques Rueff: Birth of a Neoliberalism.”
- Institut d’Études Politiques (IEP) of Lyon (2014-2018) – Diplôme (equivalent Bachelor + Master)
- IEP is a liberal arts school delivering its own “diplôme” in five years, equivalent to a Master’s degree, with a competitive, national examination entry, in the top tier of French higher education.
- Master’s thesis: “Ecuador. Revolution from Political Agenda to Institutionalization: What Possibilities of Political Change?”
Publications
Peer-reviewed Articles
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Carret, Vincent. “Wassily Leontief’s Research Program: Ideas, Beliefs, Institutions” History of Political Economy. Forthcoming.
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Assous, Michaël, and Vincent Carret. 2024. “A micro foundational episode of the early history of macroeconomics: a 1932 debate on Walrasian economics and multiple equilibria” European Journal of the History of Economic Thought. Forthcoming, April issue.
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Assous, Michaël, and Vincent Carret. 2023 “Moving Dynamics Beyond Business Cycles: Jan Tinbergen’s First Macrodynamic Model (1934-1936)” The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought. 30 (1): 117-131. link
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Carret, Vincent. “Fluctuations and growth in Ragnar Frisch’s rocking horse model.” Journal of the History of Economic Thought. 44 (4): 622-641. link
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Carret, Vincent. 2022 “Rupture and continuity in the original divide between microdynamics and macrodynamics” The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought. 29 (6): 1146-1164. link
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Assous, Michaël, and Vincent Carret. 2022 “The importance of multiple equilibria for economic policy in Jan Tinbergen’s early works” The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought. 29 (3): 455-479. link
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Assous, Michaël, Olivier Bruno, Vincent Carret, and Muriel Dal-Pont Legrand. 2021. “Expectations and full employment. Hansen, Samuelson and Lange.” Revue d’économie politique. 132 (3): 511–30. link
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Assous, Michaël, and Vincent Carret. “(In)Stability at the Cowles Commission (1939–1948).” The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought. 27 (4): 582–605. link.
Book
- Assous, Michaël, and Vincent Carret. 2022. Modeling Economic Instability - A History of Early Macroeconomics. Cham: Springer. Companion website: link
Book Chapters
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Carret, Vincent. “Debt Diplomacy in the 1920s: the Case of the French and Hellenic War Debts.” in Brandon Christensen (ed.), Reassessing Libertarian Foreign Policy: Interstate Federalism and the Anarchy of Westphalia. Palgrave, forthcoming
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Carret, Vincent, and Michaël Assous. “Econometrics at Harvard.” Chapter to be published in the Palgrave Companion to Harvard Economics, ed. by R. Cord. October 30, 2021.
Reviews and Comments
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Carret, Vincent. 2024 “Review of ‘Communist Planning versus Rationality: Mathematical Economics and the Central Plan in Eastern Europe and China.’ edited by János Kovács” History of Political Economy. 56 (1): 170-173.
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Carret, Vincent. 2023 “The Emperor has no Clothes: A Reply to Ginoux and Jovanovic.” Letter to the Editor, Journal of the History of Economic Thought. 45 (3): 511-519.
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Carret, Vincent. 2022 “Review of ‘Jan Tinbergen (1903-1994) and the Rise of Economic Expertise’ by Erwin Dekker” Journal of the History of Economic Thought. 44 (4): 673-676.
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Carret, Vincent. 2022 “A Comment on Ginoux and Jovanovic, ‘The Rocking Horse Model Does Rock.’” History of Economic Ideas. Anno XXX, 2022/2, pp. 165-171.
Working Papers
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Carret, Vincent. “Do Engineers Believe in Spontaneous Order? The Case of Jacques Rueff” HOPE Center Working Paper.
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Carret, Vincent. “Benevolent Dictators and Transaction Costs”. (November 2023). SSRN Working Paper.
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Carret, Vincent. “Inflation, Price Controls and Compliance during the Korean War” (April 2023). SSRN Working Paper.
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Carret, Vincent. “Distribution of Power and Ordered Competition in the European Coal and Steel Community” (March 6, 2023). HOPE Center Working Paper.
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Carret, Vincent. “Investment Planning and the Input-Output Model in Postwar Europe.” Working Paper. HAL, December 12, 2022.
Conferences, Seminars, Colloquia
- 2024
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- Colloquium on Market Institutions and Economic Processes (NYU)
- “Do Engineers Believe in Spontaneous Order? The Case of Jacques Rueff”
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- Liberty Fund Colloquium (DC)
- “F. A. Hayek and Liberty”
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- 2023
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- Southern Economics Association Annual Meeting (New Orleans)
- “Inflation during the Korean War: Sources and Remedies”
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- Liberalism and the Global Economy (Bretton Woods)
- “The Immorality of Price Controls”
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- Markets and Society Conference (Falls Church)
- “The Immorality of Price Controls”
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- Capitalism and Informality Conference (Ohio University)
- “Inflation, Price Controls and Compliance during the Korean War”
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- ASSA Annual Meeting (New Orleans)
- “Investment Planning and the Input-Output Model in Postwar Europe”
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- Liberty Fund Colloquium (Indianapolis)
- “Jacques Rueff’s Social Order”
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- Public Choice Society Meeting (Seattle), Défi Seminar (online), Hope Center Lunch Seminar (Duke University)
- “Distribution of Power and Ordered Competition in the European Coal and Steel Community”
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- 2022
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- HOPE Center Lunch Seminar (Duke University)
- “Investment Planning and the Input-Output Model in Postwar Europe”
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- SEA Annual Conference (Fort Lauderdale)
- “Liberalism, Competition and Limits to Government: Jacques Rueff and the European Coal and Steel Community”
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- HES Annual Conference (Minneapolis), Hope Center Lunch Seminar (Duke University)
- “Why was Leontief so grumpy?”
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- IHS Graduate Conference (online)
- “Debt diplomacy in the 1920s: the case of the French and Hellenic war debts”
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2021
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- H2M Seminar (Paris I University), ESHET Conference (Sofia, online), STOREP Conference (Universita dell’Insubria, online)
- “Rupture and continuity in the original divide between micro-dynamics and macro-dynamics”
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- HOPE Center Lunch Seminar (Duke University)
- “Econometrics at Harvard”
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- Common seminar GREDEG - TRIANGLE (online), HOPE Center Workshop Seminar (Duke University)
- “The hidden side of Jan Tinbergen’s approach to economic policy (1934-1944)”
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- Workshop of the Doctoral School of Economics in Lyon, Workshop of the economics group at Triangle
- “Fluctuations and growth in Ragnar Frisch’s rocking horse model”
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2020
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- Workshop of PhD students in economics at Triangle
- “Reading macrodynamic models with new tools”
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- 2019
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Organization of a seminar on the Cowles Commission at the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme in Lyon, France, December 2
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Macroeconomics: Dynamic Histories - When Statics is no Longer Enough, Workshop held in Colmar, France
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Teaching
- Monetary Macroeconomics (University of Lyon)
- Principles of Microeconomics (Creighton University)
- Principles of Macroeconomics (Creighton University)
- Interactive models used in class are available here
Grants and Awards
- Institute for Humane Studies (2022): Summer Institute; three Hayek Fund grants (ASSA, SEA, PCS)
- History of Economics Society (2022): Young Scholars Program
- Duke University (2021-2022): Two-semester grant extended to four semesters
- University of Lyon (2019-2022): Three-year doctoral fellowship
- Young Scholar Seminar Award (2021): Sofia Conference of the ESHET
Languages
English (fluent), French (native speaker)
Computational Skills
Python, R, JavaScript, HTML/CSS. See https://github.com/vcarret.
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- Some of the websites and applications I built:
- http://hetmodels.com: personal blog with several Javascript applications of economic models
- http://economic-instability.com: website of our book with many Javascript applications of economic models
- La Moulinette: an application I built in Python during my PhD to streamline the process of translating papers written in Dutch or German. Several of my publications, especially those on Jan Tinbergen, used this software to gain access to many of his untranslated articles.
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- Other applications written in R/Shiny include:
- https://cbheem.shinyapps.io/Samuelson_1939: Samuelson’s 1939 model
- https://cbheem.shinyapps.io/Frisch: Frisch’s 1933 model
Online Course Credentials
- Algorithms (Stanford Online)
- Statistics and Data Science (MITx MicroMasters Program)
- Introductory Mechanics (MITx X-Series)