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 reviews in by Revue de la régulation, Contretemps [1, 2] • overview from the Institut La Boétie • press reviews in L'Humanité, Le Monde diplo, Études, 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

"Optimal enfranchisement", with Marc Fleurbaey • Social Choice & Welfare, March 2026, 66, 275–306 • Ungated • Complementary note: "When paternalism beats voting"
"The Chains of Exploitation: A Theoretical and Empirical Exploration", with Simon Bittmann • Theory & Social Inquiry, December 2025, 1(2), 1-34
"Which side are you on? A historical perspective on union membership composition in 7 Western countries", with Cyprien Batut and Paolo Santini • Industrial Relations, April 2024, 63 (2), 205-287 • Ungated • Media coverage: Alternatives économiques, Corriere della Sera, lavoce.info

French

"Les inégalités de durée espérée de retraite et de durée espérée de retraite sans incapacité" [Inequality in disability-free retirement expectancy], with Julien Blasco • Économie & Statistique [fr, en], 2025, 549, 3-29 • R code • Media coverage: Alternatives économiques
"La portée politique de l’expérience prolétarienne. Apories de Socialisme ou Barbarie" [The political significance of the proletarian experience. Aporias of ‘Socialisme ou Barbarie’] • Consecutio Rerum, October 2024, VIII (16), 121-144

Working papers

"Cutting hours through outsourcing", with Olivier Godechot • latest version • WID working paper • methodological note, LP-CSA R package
"Power and freedom in mechanisms", with Christian Basteck • Here
"L’Échelle mobile des salaires : une histoire hors-la-loi ? (1950-1984)", with Tristan Guesdon and Jonathan Marie • On HAL
"L’Influence des syndicats depuis les années 1950 en France. De nouveaux éclairages à partir de données quantitatives" , with Cyprien Batut, Tristan Haute and Paolo Santini • On HAL
"Three views of economic power", with Alexandre Chirat • Old version on HAL • Most recent version available upon demand
"Power in markets" • On SSRN

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
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