Associate Professor (Maître de Conférences) in Politics, Philosophy & Economics (PPE)
ESPOL (European School of Political and Social Sciences), Université Catholique de Lille (France)
Agrégé de Philosophie (2016)
Normative political economy; political philosophy; liberalism & neoliberalism; markets & democracy; complexity; polycentricity/federalism; city autonomy; housing and gentrification; social contract theory.
Publications (see my Google Scholar).
Colin-Jaeger, N. (2026). Alexandre Viala, Faut-il abandonner le pouvoir aux savants ? La tentation de l’épistocratie, Paris, Dalloz, 2024, 218 p. Revue de métaphysique et de morale, 2026(1), 135–138. doi: 10.3917/rmm.261.0135.
Colin-Jaeger, N., & Dold, M. (2025). Individual autonomy and public deliberation in behavioral public policy. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 12, Article 430. doi: 10.1057/s41599-025-04708-z.
Colin-Jaeger, N. (2024). Nemo, Philippe. La philosophie de Hayek. Paris, PUF, 2023. Revue française de science politique, 74(4), 790–791. doi: 10.3917/rfsp.744.0790.
Colin-Jaeger, N. (2024). Diviser pour mieux gouverner : un argument en défense d’un fédéralisme polycentrique. Revue philosophique de la France et de l’étranger, 149(4), 475–498. doi: 10.3917/rphi.244.0475.
Colin-Jaeger, N. (2024). Can we design spontaneity? Hayek, design, and the normative appeal of spontaneous orders. Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics, 17(1), 66–88. doi: 10.23941/ejpe.v17i1.736.
Colin-Jaeger, N. (2024). La nature de la Fédération : ontologie et caractéristiques normatives. Implications philosophiques.
Colin-Jaeger, N. (2023). Liberalism, diversity, complexity, and public reason: Gerald Gaus’ contribution to political philosophy. Raisons politiques, 92(4), 85–94. doi: 10.3917/rai.092.0085.
Colin-Jaeger, N. (2023). Didier Fassin (ed.), La société qui vient. Paris, Seuil, 2022. Revue française de science politique, 73(1), 131–132. doi: 10.3917/rfsp.731.0131.
Colin-Jaeger, N. (2022). Gouverner par les règles : pensée politique et juridique néolibérale. Hayek, Lippmann, Buchanan, Posner [Doctoral dissertation, ENS de Lyon].
Colin-Jaeger, N., Dold, M., & Gascoin, A. (2022). Realism and deliberation in normative economics. In S. Badiei & A. Grivaux (Eds.), The positive and the normative in economic thought (pp. 108–128). Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003247289-8.
Colin-Jaeger, N. (2022). Céline Spector, No Démos ? Souveraineté et démocratie à l’épreuve de l’Europe. Œconomia, 12(2), 357–362.
Colin-Jaeger, N. (2022). Walter Lippmann, la Common Law et le problème de la justification de l’interventionnisme libéral. Philosophical Enquiries, 11, 1–30.
Colin-Jaeger, N. (2022). Justice sociale et défense des marchés concurrentiels : peut-on réconcilier Rawls et Hayek ? Implications philosophiques.
Colin-Jaeger, N. (2022). David M. Levy and Sandra J. Peart, Towards an economics of natural equals: A documentary history of the early Virginia School. Œconomia, 12(1), 135–138. doi: 10.4000/oeconomia.12033.
Colin-Jaeger, N. (2021). Reconstructing liberalism: Hayek, Lippmann and the making of neoliberalism. Œconomia, 11(2), 281–313. doi: 10.4000/oeconomia.10874.
Colin-Jaeger, N., & Wiedemann, É. (2021). Aux origines nietzschéennes des ambiguïtés du concept d’entrepreneur : Schumpeter lecteur de Nietzsche. Revue de philosophie économique / Review of Economic Philosophy, 22(2), 89–124. doi: 10.3917/rpec.222.0089.
Beddeleem, M., & Colin-Jaeger, N. (2020). L’héritage conservateur du néolibéralisme. Astérion, 23. doi: 10.4000/asterion.5452.
Colin-Jaeger, N., & Delcey, T. (2020). When efficient market hypothesis meets Hayek on information: Beyond a methodological reading. Journal of Economic Methodology, 27(2), 97–116. doi: 10.1080/1350178X.2019.1675896.
Colin-Jaeger, N., & Verlengia, C. (2020). Les définitions néolibérales de la démocratie, entre critique et recatégorisation. Consecutio Rerum, 5(9), 7–24.
Colin-Jaeger, N. (2020). L’idéal démocratique contre la démocratie : Buchanan et l’économie politique constitutionnelle. Consecutio Rerum, 5(9), 97–131.
Laval, C., Verlengia, C., & Colin-Jaeger, N. (2020). Entretien avec Christian Laval. Les métamorphoses du néolibéralisme. Retour sur une recherche.
Colin-Jaeger, N. (2016). L’anthropologie politique d’Adam Smith. Consecutio Rerum, 1(1), 133–150.
Colin-Jaeger, N., & Reed, L. (2025). Survey article: “Democracy in crisis?” Evaluating deliberative innovations in the French context. Working paper/preprint.
Colin-Jaeger, N. (2025). An overview of social contract theories: From Hobbes to contemporary theories. Working paper/preprint.
Colin-Jaeger, N., & Goëtzmann, M. (2024). In defense of den-city: Autonomy, right to the city, and local democratic failures. Working paper/preprint.
Colin-Jaeger, N. (2024). La justice sociale requiert-elle l’État ? Une critique de l’hypothèse étatiste sur la justice sociale. Working paper/preprint.
Colin-Jaeger, N. (2024). Complexity, diversity, and governance: From central deliberative governance to polycentricity. Working paper/preprint.
Colin-Jaeger, N. (2023). Can competitive markets be just? On the redefinition of classical liberalism by John Tomasi. Working paper/preprint.
2025–present: Associate Professor (Maître de Conférences), PPE, ESPOL — Université Catholique de Lille (Lille, France).
2023–2025: Postdoctoral researcher in political philosophy, Center for Critical Democracy Studies — American University of Paris (Paris, France).
2022–2023: Postdoctoral researcher (Assistant-docteur), University of Fribourg (Switzerland).
2021–2022: Teaching & research fellow (Attaché temporaire d'enseignement et de recherche), ENS de Lyon (Lyon, France).
2020–2021: Research Fellow, Center for the History of Political Economy (HOPE), Duke University (Durham, United-States).
PhD in Philosophy (ENS de Lyon), defended 16 September 2022.
Dissertation: Governing by Rules: Neoliberal Political and Legal Thought (Hayek, Lippmann, Buchanan, Posner).
MA (M2) Economics & Humanities (ESH), Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (2016–2017).
Agrégation de Philosophie (France), 2016.
MA (M2) History of Philosophy, ENS de Lyon (2014–2015).
Le marché contre l’entreprise? Vers une critique libérale de l’ordre conservateur (Accepted).
Libre d’opprimer? Le libéralisme classique face aux normes sociales oppressives (revise & resubmit).
La justice sociale requiert-elle l’État? Une critique de l’hypothèse étatiste (Submitted).
Colin-Jaeger, N., & Goetzmann, M. In Defense of Den-City: Autonomy, Right to the City, and the Failure of Local Democracies (submitted / in revision).
Boissonnet, N., & Colin-Jaeger, N. Against Gerontocracy: Defending Age-Weighted Voting (submitted).
Colin-Jaeger, N. & Magni-Berton, R. "The Gerontocratic Bias" (Accepted).
Mapping Social Contract Theories: An Overview (Accepter for a collective volume).
Book project (from the PhD dissertation): Governing by Rules: Neoliberal Political and Legal Thought (In French, Accepted by ENS Editions, in revision).
Edited volume project: Vulnerabilities: Theory and Applications (In French, with Marie-Claire Willems, Project Accepted).
Colin-Jaeger, N., & Goetzmann, M. PolycentriCities and Fairness: How Much Autonomy Should Cities Be Granted?
Place-Based Rights and the Moral Topography of Gentrification (v2).
Competition and Federation: Does freedom of movement and autonomy undermine equality?
Colin-Jaeger, N., & Goetzmann, M. Are people entitled to the market value of their exceptional homes?
Accounting for Past Inequalities: Assessing a fair baseline for dynamic contracting (Drafting).
The Epistemology Financial Bubbles (With Thomas Delcey, starting)
Blockchains and decentralized governance (Draft v1).
ESPOL (2025–2026): Introduction to Game Theory (I).
ESPOL (2025–2026): Contemporary Ethical Issues.
ESPOL (2025–2026): Political and Philosophical Liberalism.
ESPOL (2025–2026): Research Methods & Epistemology in PPE.
ESPOL (2024–2025): Introduction to Economic and Social Ethics; Economic and Political Liberalism.
Paris 1 (2024–2025): Introduction to PPE (Economics).
University of Lausanne (2024–2025): Defining neoliberalism (Political sciences).
Recent presentations (2026-onwards)
February 04, Université de Caen : "Market, Democracy, and Justice" Workshop. Presentation: "Diversity and dynamism in social contract theory : Promises and Challenges".
January 28, Université de Tours : "Federalism" Seminar. Presentation : "From Experiments to Justice : A Defense of Polycentric Federalism"
May 20, Université de Nancy: "Autonomy and the cities", International Conference of Economic Philosophy.
Assistant Managing Editor, Œconomia: History, Methodology, Philosophy.
Co-editor, special issue on Neoliberalism and Democracy (Consecutio Rerum).
Organizer: Autonomy of Cities: Legal and Philosophical Perspectives (AUP, June 2025); Renewing the Social Contract (Dec. 2024); International conference Economic Philosophy, Reims (May, 2024).
Reviewer for journals including Journal of Economic Methodology, The Tocqueville Review, Œconomia, European Journal of Law and Economics, Journal for the History of Economic Thought, among others.