Research

Publications:

• 1. Julien Gradoz. 2025. The Virtues of Clarity: Robert Dorfman, from Mathematical Programming to Environmental Economics. Revue d'économie politique, forthcoming.

  2. Julien Gradoz and Steven G. Medema. 2025. Editing Book Reviews in the History of Economics. An Interview with Steven G. Medema. Œconomia. History, Methodology, Philosophy, forthcoming.

  3. Erwin Dekker and Julien Gradoz. 2025. The Regulation of Repugnant Goods and the Limits of the Alchian-Allen Effect. European Journal of Law and Economics, 59(1): 1-18. 

  4. Fabien Eloire and Julien Gradoz. 2025. ‘The Economics of Singularities’ by Lucien Karpik: Debts and Criticisms. Review of Social Economy, 83(3) 304-326.

  5. Julien Gradoz and Jacques-François Thisse. 2025. An Itinerary in the Theory of Product Differentiation. An Interview with Jacques-François Thisse. Œconomia. History, Methodology, Philosophy, forthcoming.

  6. Julien Gradoz. 2023. The Computer and the Statistician. Computerization and the Mobilization of Scanner Data by National Statistical Institutes for the Construction of Price Indexes. Œconomia. History, Methodology, Philosophy, 13(3): 849-876. 

  7. Erwin Dekker and Julien Gradoz. 2023. Managing Repugnance: How Core-stigma Shapes Firm Behavior. Journal of Institutional Economics, 19(6), 903-917.

  8. Erwin Dekker and Julien Gradoz. 2022. Exemplary directors, European Imports, and the Changing Valuation of Films in Hollywood, 1961–1980. Cultural Sociology, 16(4): 503-526. 

  9. Julien Gradoz and Raphaël Raux. 2021. Trolling in the Deep: Managing Transgressive Content on Online Platforms as a Commons. In Erwin Dekker and Pavel Kuchař (eds), Governing Markets as Knowledge Commons, Cambridge University Press, 217-237. 

  10. Julien Gradoz and Sandra Hoibian. 2019. La fracture numérique française au travers d’une approche par les « capabilités » : l’enjeu d’apprendre à apprendre. Gérer et comprendre, 136: 37-51. 

Book Reviews:

1. Julien Gradoz. 2024. Élodie Bertrand et Vida Panitch (dir.). The Routledge Handbook of Commodification. Œconomia. History, Methodology, Philosophy, 14(1): 105-117. 

2. Julien Gradoz. 2021. Modérer l’activité des modérateurs ? À propos de l’ouvrage Derrière les écrans. Les nettoyeurs du Web à l’ombre des réseaux sociaux, de Sarah T. Roberts. Revue française de socio-économie, 27(2) : 231-239.

3. Julien Gradoz. 2019. Luc Boltanski et Arnaud Esquerre. Enrichissement. Une critique de la marchandise. Œconomia. History, Methodology, Philosophy, 9(1): 179-187. 

Working Papers:

1. Julien Gradoz. Introducing a Quality Variable in the Theory of Product Differentiation: Abbott (1953) and Dorfman and Steiner (1954). CHOPE Working Paper No. 2024-11. Revise and resubmit.

2. Julien Gradoz. A Note on the Origins of “The General Theory of Second Best”: The Accounts of Kelvin John Lancaster, Richard George Lipsey and Harry Gordon Johnson. CHOPE Working Paper No. 2025-01. Revise and resubmit.

3. Julien Gradoz. Promoting Statistical Methods to Engineers and Economists: Walter Andrew Shewhart and Statistical Quality Control. CHOPE Working Paper No. 2025-02. Revise and resubmit. 

4. Julien Gradoz. The Functions of Book Reviews in Economics. CHOPE Working Paper No. 2025-04. Revise and resubmit.

5. Julien Gradoz. Kelvin John Lancaster and the Distinction between the “Goods are Goods Approach” and the “Characteristics Approach” to Demand Theory. CHOPE Working Paper No. 2024-05. Submitted.

6. Julien Gradoz. The Nomenclature Assumption in Demand Theory.  CHOPE Working Paper No. 2024-08. Submitted.

7. Julien Gradoz. George Christopher Archibald and the Quest for the Substance of Monopolistic Competition. CHOPE Working Paper No. 2024-12. Submitted. 

8. Julien Gradoz. What is a Book Review? The Case of Economics. CHOPE Working Paper No. 2025-03. Submitted.