Research

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

• • • 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, Comprenhensive Results in Social Psychology.

      • 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, The `View from Manywhere': Normative economics with context-dependent preferences

  • Lecouteux, Guilhem & Ivan Mitrouchev, Inferring Welfare from Observed Choices: An Axiomatic Approach

  • Ouangraoua, Chris, Ismael Rafai & Guilhem Lecouteux. Internal and External Validity of Ambiguity Aversion Measures

  • Lecouteux, Guilhem & Léonard Moulin. Cycling in the aftermath of Covid-19: an empirical estimation of the social dynamics of bicycle adoption in Paris

  • 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)

• • 2017. Stefan Heidl, "Philosophical Problems of Behavioural Economics", Oeconomia, 7(1): 143-148

  • 2015. PhD Thesis Summary: Reconciling Normative and Behavioural Economics, Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics, 8(2): 117-120.

  • 2015. Reconciling Normative and Behavioural Economics (Ecole Polytechnique, France) [summary]