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Maxime Desmarais-Tremblay

Lecturer

Goldsmiths, University of London

M.Desmarais-Tremblay@gold.ac.uk

Public economics Theory of public finance History of economic thought Normative economics Political philosophy

Richard A. Musgrave James M. Buchanan Paul A. Samuelson William H. Hutt

About

My main research interests are in the recent history and the philosophical foundations of the modern theory of public finance. I studied the conceptual history of public goods and merit goods (merit wants). My research focuses on the contribution of Richard A. Musgrave to the modernisation of public finance and the emergence of public economics. I compared Musgrave’s approach to public expenditures with that of other major figures of economic theory: Paul A. Samuelson and James M. Buchanan. I am interested in the contextual history of economics, as well as in its philosophical underpinnings, both from the ‘internal’ perspective of economic methodology, and from the perspective of political philosophy. I am currently working on the principles of taxation, and on the conceptual origins of consumers’ sovereignty.

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Publications

2020

  • Desmarais-Tremblay, M. (2020). W.H. Hutt and the Conceptualization of Consumers’ Sovereignty. Oxford Economic Papers.

  • Desmarais-Tremblay, M. (2020). Review of Niklas Olsen, The Sovereign Consumer: A New Intellectual History of Neoliberalism. Journal of the History of Economic Thought, Forthcoming.

  • Desmarais-Tremblay, M. (2020). Musgrave and the Idea of Community. In R. Backhouse, A. Baujard, & T. Nishizawa (Eds.), Welfare theory, public action and ethical values: re-evaluating the history of welfare economics. Cambridge University Press.

2019

  • Desmarais-Tremblay, M. (2019). Calabresi on Merit Goods. Global Jurist, 19(3).

  • Desmarais-Tremblay, M. (2019). The normative problem of merit goods in perspective. Forum for Social Economics, 48(3), 219–247.

  • Desmarais-Tremblay, M. (2019). Review of June A. Sekera, The Public Economy in Crisis. A Call for a New Public Economics. Œconomia, 9(3), 585–588.

  • Desmarais-Tremblay, M., & Johnson, M. (2019). The Fiscal Policy Seminar: Its Early Stages’ by Richard A. Musgrave. Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology, 37, 147–179.

2018

  • Desmarais-Tremblay, M. (2018). Review of Ian Kumekawa, The First Serious Optimist. A. C. Pigou and the Birth of Welfare Economics. History of Economic Ideas, 26(1), 190–194.

  • Desmarais-Tremblay, M. (2018). Review of The world in the model. How economists work and think, by Mary S. Morgan. The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 25(3), 493–498.

  • Desmarais-Tremblay, M. (2018). Le problème de la justification du concept de bien méritoire en perspective. In P. Crétois (Ed.), L’accaparement des biens communs. Presses Universitaires de Paris Nanterre.

2017

  • Desmarais-Tremblay, M. (2017). A genealogy of the concept of merit wants. The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 24(3), 409–440.

  • Desmarais-Tremblay, M. (2017). Musgrave, Samuelson, and the Crystallization of the Standard Rationale for Public Goods. History of Political Economy, 49(1), 59–92.

2015

  • Desmarais-Tremblay, M. (2015). Review of Government Failure: Society, Markets and Rules, by Wilfred Dolfsma. Journal of Economic Issues, 49(4), 1140–1142.

2014

  • Desmarais-Tremblay, M. (2014). Normative and positive theories of public finance: contrasting Musgrave and Buchanan. Journal of Economic Methodology, 21(3), 273–289.

  • Desmarais-Tremblay, M. (2014). Review of Angela Kallhoff, Why Democracy Needs Public Goods. \OE Conomia, 4(2), 249–253.