Ulysse Lojkine - Research

Book

Le Fil invisible du capital. Déchiffrer les mécanismes de l'exploitation, La Découverte, 2025
Webpage • companion piece in Le Grand Continent • scholarly review by Simon Verdun • media reviews in L'Humanité, Le Monde diplo, Boojum, Le Mag du Ciné • interviews in France Culture [1, 2], Alter éco, Institut Avant-garde, Nonfiction.fr, Les Inrocks, Le Courrier, FTU.be

Peer-reviewed publications

English

"The Chains of Exploitation: A Theoretical and Empirical Exploration", with Simon Bittmann
Accepted at Theory & Social Inquiry • Last version of the working paper here

"Optimal enfranchisement", with Marc Fleurbaey
Forthcoming in Social Choice & Welfare • Accepted version of the working paper here

"Which side are you on? A historical perspective on union membership composition in 7 Western countries", with Cyprien Batut and Paolo Santini
Published in Industrial Relations, April 2024, 63 (2), 205-287 • Accepted version of the working paper here • Media coverage: Alternatives économiques, Corriere della Sera, lavoce.info

French

"La portée politique de l’expérience prolétarienne. Apories de Socialisme ou Barbarie" [The political significance of the proletarian experience. Aporias of ‘Socialisme ou Barbarie’]
Published in Consecutio Rerum, October 2024, VIII (16), 121-144

Working papers

"Three views of economic power", with Alexandre Chirat
October 2024 version on HAL

"Espérance de retraite sans incapacité" [Disability-free retirement expectancy], with Julien Blasco
Media coverage: Alternatives économiques

Work in progress

Other scientific publications

preface and translation of Joan Robinson's Essay on marxian economics (Essai sur l'économie de Marx, Editions sociales, 2022)
reviewed in the Revue française de socio-économie, Contretemps as well as by Branko Milanovic and Clément Carbonnier on their blogs
Découvrir Luxemburg [Discovering Rosa Luxemburg], with Alice Vincent, Editions sociales, September 2021
mentioned in Mediapart
preface to Rosa Luxemburg's Accumulation of capital (Œuvres complètes, t. V - L'Accumulation du capital, Agone-Smolny, 2019), with Guillaume Fondu

Book reviews

of Branko Milanovic, Visions of inequality, HUP, 2023, in Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics, 17(2), winter 2024 [online]
of Nicholas Vrousalis, Exploitation as domination, OUP, 2022, in Revue de philosophie économique, September 2024, 25(1), 193-200 [online]
of Emmanuel Renault, Abolir l'exploitation [Abolishing exploitation], La Découverte, 2023, in Contretemps, Dec. 2023 [online]
of Catherine Colliot-Thélène, Le Commun de la liberté [The Commons of freedom], PUF, 2022, in La Vie des idées, June 2022 [french, english]
of Juan Sebastian Carbonell, Le futur du travail [The future of work], Amsterdam, 2022, in Le Grand continent, February 2022 [online]
of Cédric Durand, Technoféodalisme. Critique de l’économie numérique [Technofeodalism], Zones, 2020, in Contretemps, November 2020 [online]
of Oren Cass, The Once and future worker. A Vision for the Renewal of Work in America, Encounter Books, 2018, with Cyprien Batut, in Le Grand Continent, February 2020 [online]
of Thomas Piketty, Capital et idéologie [Capital and ideology], Seuil, 2019, in Le Grand Continent, October 2019 [online]

Other formats

"Ce qu'on ne voit pas" [What can't be seen], Les Temps qui restent, April 2024 [online]
"Définir l'exploitation" [Defining exploitation], PhD dissertation, defended in Oct. 2023
- Summary published in the Erasmus Journal for Philosophy & Economics, 2024, 16 (2), 292-295
"Une retraite pour les morts ?" [Pension for the dead?], research note, September 2022 version on HAL
media coverage: France Info, Le Monde, Libération
"Recounting France’s trade unions", with Cyprien Batut and Paolo Santini, IPP Policy Brief n°78, January 2022 (english, french)
"Spreading the word on Rosa Luxemburg", interview with Eric Sevault and Alice Vincent, Actuel Marx, 2022, 1 (71), 107-117 (english, french)
"Critical political economy beyond the production/circulation dichotomy", LPE Blog, May 2021 [online]
Pieces in Le Grand Continent :
- "Indexation des salaires sur l'inflation : structurer un débat" [Indexing wages on prices], 2024 [online]
- "Graeber en plein vol" [Obituary to David Graeber], 2020 [online]
- "Économie de pandémie, économie de guerre" [Pandemic economy and war economy], with Thomas Irace, 2020 [online]
- "Le nouveau fordisme de droite" [The new right-wing fordism], 2020 [online]
  republished in the Belgian journal Politique, November 2020