Research

Publications:

• 1. Julien Gradoz. 2025. The Virtues of Clarity: Robert Dorfman, from Mathematical Programming to Environmental Economics. Revue d'économie politique, 135(5): 809-829.

  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, 15(1):101-119.

  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. Ludine Cayla and Julien Gradoz. 2025. La qualification du produit sur un marché contesté. Genre, sexualité & société, 33: 1-19.

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

  6. 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, 15(3): 483-500.

  7. 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. 

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

  9. 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. 

  10. 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. 

  11. 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.