I would love to develop a course in an economics department devoted to governance theory, combining institutional analysis with empirical studies of the management of collective goods, including public goods and common-pool resources. The course would place particular emphasis on the capacity of individuals to develop and sustain self-governing arrangements to address collective action problems. It would be directly inspired by the Ostroms’ own courses at the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, with particular attention to comparative institutional analysis. Such a course would aim to provide students with analytical tools for understanding the democratic and ecological challenges facing contemporary societies.
For now, here are the courses I have had the opportunity to teach, all at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne:
Mathematics and Economic Modeling (1st year)
Course coordinators: Jérôme Lecointre, Muriel Pucci Porte, and Julie Valentin
Characterization of potential extrema; Partial and total derivatives of multivariable functions; Modelling macroeconomic dynamics; Modelling income as a function of working time; Modelling a company’s profit function; Modelling the effects of GDP per capita on life expectancy and inequality.
Microeconomics: Competitive Equilibrium and Market Failure (2nd year)
Course coordinator: Sophie Jallais
Perfect competition model: pure exchange and production economies; General equilibrium analysis (Debreu and Arrow); Optimality and social justice; Externalities and market failures.
Microeconomics: Market Structure and Firm Strategy (2nd year)
Course coordinators: Claire Pignol, and Jean-Philippe Tropeano
Competition vs. monopoly; Natural, regulated, and discriminating monopolies; Cournot and Bertrand duopoly and oligopoly; Game theory, Nash equilibrium, and strategic behaviors with perfect and imperfect information.
Institutions: Public Finance and Taxation (2nd year)
Course coordinators: Nadine Thévenot, and Bruno Tinel
The origins of taxation, the State, and social protection; Fiscal balance and public debt; French taxation; Major trends in public expenditure.
Macroeconomics: Economic Growth (3rd year)
Course coordinators: Goulven Rubin, and Maria Bas
Solow model with and without technological progress; Steady-state growth and transition dynamics; Golden Rule of capital accumulation; Human capital and growth; Endogenous growth models (AK and Romer); Population dynamics and the origins of modern economic growth.
Co-organizer of the AOH Junior Workshop (Master's level, M2)
Supporting students in the "Economics and Human Sciences" programme with their master's dissertations.