Marc Fleurbaey


Marc Fleurbaey is a French researcher specialized in normative economics and social choice theory. He has been researcher and professor in the United Kingdom, France and the United States since 1994. He is currently Robert E. Kuenne Professor of Economics and Humanistic Studies and Professor of Public Affairs at Princeton University.

Education

Fleurbaey graduated from the ENSAE ParisTech and holds a PhD in Economics from the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences.

Career

Since 2011, Fleurbaey has been 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. 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 and philosophy of economics.

Public engagement

Fleurbaey has occupied counseling positions at the World Bank, the UN, and the OECD and has participated in different international reports on societal topics such as welfare, social progress, and climate change. Fleurbaey publishes regularly in French-speaking and English-speaking media: Huffington Post, Huffington Post, Le Monde, Libération, La vie des idées, La Croix, Project Syndicate, The Conversation, The Conversation, The American Prospect, ,World Economic Forum. Ahead of the 2012 French presidential election, Fleurbaey co-signed an appeal of several economists in support of candidate François Hollande.

Awards and honours

Fleurbaey has authored or co-authored several books and journal articles.. Among them we can cite the following books: