My research lies at the intersection of behavioural economics, history of economic thought, and philosophy, and investigates the role of behavioural sciences in the design and justification of public policies. I have published in economics, philosophy, and psychology journals, and I am currently coordinating a project in digital health on the prevention of risky behaviours.
Publications
Lecouteux, Guilhem & Léonard Moulin (2024), Cycling in the aftermath of Covid-19: an empirical estimation of the social dynamics of bicycle adoption in Paris. Transportation Research: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Volume 25, 101115.
Published version (Gold OA): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trip.2024.101115
Lecouteux, Guilhem & Ivan Mitrouchev (2024), The `View from Manywhere': Normative economics with context-dependent preferences. Economics & Philosophy
Published version: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266267123000391
Accepted version: [document]
Priolo, Daniel, Isabelle Milhabet, Marilena Bertolino, Tom Juille, Dorian Jullien, Guilhem Lecouteux, Ismael Rafai & Pierre Thérouanne (2023). Would you like some coffee with your sugar? A natural field experiment on the efficiency and acceptability of setting zero sugar as a default in coffee-vending machines, Comprehensive Results in Social Psychology, 7(1-2), 25-41.
Published version: https://doi.org/10.1080/23743603.2023.2214964
Accepted version: [document]
Lecouteux, Guilhem (2023). The Homer Economicus narrative: from cognitive psychology to individual public policies. Journal of Economic Methodology, 30(2), 176-187.
Published version: https://doi.org/10.1080/1350178X.2023.2192222
Accepted version: [document]
Lecouteux, Guilhem (2022). Reconciling normative and behavioural economics: the problem that cannot be solved. In Badiei, S. & Grivaux, A (Eds), The Positive and Normative in Economic Thought, Routledge, pp.148-166.
Published version: https://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003247289-10
Accepted version: [document]
Lecouteux, Guilhem (2021). Behavioural welfare economics and consumer sovereignty. In Heilmann, C. & Reiss, J. (Eds), Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Economics, Routledge, pp.58-66.
Published version: http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315739793-5
Accepted version: [document]
Lecouteux, Guilhem (2021). Welfare economics in large worlds: welfare and public policies in an uncertain environment. In Kincaid, H & Ross, D. (Eds), A Modern Guide to Philosophy of Economics, Elgar
Published version: https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788974462.00015
Accepted version: [document]
Lecouteux, Guilhem (2018). Bayesian game theorists and non-Bayesian players. European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 25(6): 1420-1454.
Published version: https://doi.org/10.1080/09672567.2018.1523207
Accepted version [document]
Lecouteux, Guilhem (2018). What does 'we' want? Team reasoning, game theory, and unselfish behaviours, Revue d'économie politique, 128(3): 311-332.
Published version (gold OA): https://www.cairn.info/revue-d-economie-politique-2018-3-page-311.htm
Introduction to a special issue on Team Reasoning
All the published papers of the issue are in open access here: https://www.cairn.info/revue-d-economie-politique-2018-3.htm
Larrouy, Lauren & Guilhem Lecouteux (2017). Mindreading and endogenous beliefs in games, Journal of Economic Methodology, 24(3): 318-343.
Published version: https://doi.org/10.1080/1350178X.2017.1335425
Accepted version: [document]
Infante, Gerardo, Guilhem Lecouteux & Robert Sugden (2016). Preference purification and the inner rational agent: a critique of the conventional wisdom of behavioural welfare economics, Journal of Economic Methodology, 23(1): 1-25.
Published version (gold OA): https://doi.org/10.1080/1350178X.2015.1070527
Infante, Gerardo, Guilhem Lecouteux & Robert Sugden (2016). On the Econ within: a reply to Daniel Hausman, Journal of Economic Methodology, 23(1): 33-37.
Published version: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1350178X.2015.1070526
Accepted version: [document]
Lecouteux, Guilhem (2016). From Homo economicus to Homo psychologicus: the Paretian foundations of behavioural paternalism, Oeconomia, 6(2): 175-200.
Published version (diamond OA): https://doi.org/10.4000/oeconomia.2324
Lecouteux, Guilhem & Léonard Moulin (2015). To gain or not to lose? Tuition fees for loss averse students, Economics Bulletin, 35(2): 1005-1019.
Published version (diamond OA): Published version (diamond OA): http://www.accessecon.com/Pubs/EB/2015/Volume35/EB-15-V35-I2-P103.pdf
Lecouteux, Guilhem (2015). In search of lost nudges, The Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 6(3): 397-408.
Published version: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13164-015-0265-0
Accepted version: [document]
Unpublished papers (available on request)
Lecouteux, Guilhem & Ivan Mitrouchev, Inferring Welfare from Observed Choices: An Axiomatic Approach (R&R)
Ouangraoua, Chris, Ismael Rafai & Guilhem Lecouteux. Internal and External Validity of Ambiguity Aversion Measures (R&R)
Lecouteux, Guilhem. The evolutionary stability of payoff-maximising behaviours and team reasoning
Larrouy, Lauren & Guilhem Lecouteux. Choosing in a large world: the role of focal points as a mindshaping device
Lecouteux, Guilhem, How we became rational: on the historical roots of the model of the inner rational agent
Miscellaneous
(PhD thesis, and book reviews)