Nicolas Brisset

I am currently Maître de conférence (associate professor) in History of Economic Thought at the Université Côte d'Azur. I am also a member of the REHPERE network. I obtained my PhD from University of Lausanne and Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University. In 2022, I was awarded the Young Researcher's Prize of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought.

My research focuses on the evolution of economics as a scientific discipline, as a domain of political expertise, and as a vehicle for ideological discourse, with a particular emphasis on the twentieth century. In my Ph. D thesis, which I defended in 2014, I undertook an investigation into the notion of the 'performativity'. This concept refers to the capacity of economic discourses to shape the social world. 

I am currently engaged in a research project with Raphaël Fèvre, which examines the contributions of French economists during the Front Populaire and Vichy regimes.