Curriculum Vitae (PDF)

Current Position

Duke University (2021-2022) – 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

  • 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

  • Carret, Vincent. “Fluctuations and growth in Ragnar Frisch’s rocking horse model.” Journal of the History of Economic Thought. 44 (4): 622-641. link

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

Other Publications

  • Carret, Vincent. “The Emperor has no Clothes: A Reply to Ginoux and Jovanovic.” Letter to the Editor, to be published in the Journal of the History of Economic Thought.

  • 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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Carret, Vincent. “Review of ‘Jan Tinbergen (1903-1994) and the Rise of Economic Expertise’ by Erwin Dekker” Journal of the History of Economic Thought. Forthcoming.

Working Papers

Conferences, Seminars, Colloquia

  • Scheduled
    • Capitalism and Informality Conference (April 2023)
  • 2023
    • ASSA Annual Meeting (New Orleans)
      “Investment Planning and the Input-Output Model in Postwar Europe”
    • Liberty Fund Colloquium (Indianapolis)
      “Jacques Rueff’s Social Order”
    • 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”
  • 2022
    • HOPE Center Lunch Seminar (Duke University)
      “Investment Planning and the Input-Output Model in Postwar Europe”
    • SEA Annual Conference (Fort Lauderdale)
      “Liberalism, Competition and Limits to Government: Jacques Rueff and the European Coal and Steel Community”
    • HES Annual Conference (Minneapolis), Hope Center Lunch Seminar (Duke University)
      “Why was Leontief so grumpy?”
    • IHS Graduate Conference (online)
      “Debt diplomacy in the 1920s: the case of the French and Hellenic war debts”

  • 2021

    • 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”
    • HOPE Center Lunch Seminar (Duke University)
      “Econometrics at Harvard”
    • Common seminar GREDEG - TRIANGLE (online), HOPE Center Workshop Seminar (Duke University)
      “The hidden side of Jan Tinbergen’s approach to economic policy (1934-1944)”
    • 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”

  • 2020

    • Workshop of PhD students in economics at Triangle
      “Reading macrodynamic models with new tools”
  • 2019

    • Organization of a seminar on the Cowles Commission at the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme in Lyon, France, December 2

    • Macroeconomics: Dynamic Histories - When Statics is no Longer Enough, Workshop held in Colmar, France

Teaching

  • Monetary Macroeconomics, undergraduates
  • 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.

Online Course Credentials

Other Occupations

  • Freelance consultant in economics, translation and communication since September 2017.
  • Archival processing in the Economists’ Papers Archive at Duke University since May 2022.