Michaël Assous is Full Professor of Economics at the Université Lumière Lyon 2, France. Assous coordinates the research branch focusing on the history of economics at Triangle since 2017, a center whose mission is to promote and support research in, and the teaching of, the history of economics in France. His principal research interests are in the history of macroeconomics. His previous work, much of which focused on the Polish economist Michal Kalecki, dealt with the analytical components of economics. His fellowship year at the HOPE Center in 2012-2013 afforded him a new experience regarding his work on the history of economics. Since then, taking advantage of the abundant holdings in the Economists’ Papers Project, Assous has been using archival material in his research projects, which deals with instability and the recent history of macroeconomics, paying attention to the papers of Robert Solow, Franco Modigliani, Oskar Lange, and Paul Samuelson. In 2012, he was awarded the ESHET (European Society of the History of Economic Thought) young researcher award. More informations can be found on his official page.
E-mail: michael.assous@univ-lyon2.fr
Vincent Carret is a PhD student at the Université Lumière Lyon 2, working on the role of economic models in the history of economic thought. The first part of his dissertation work dealt with macro-dynamic models from the 1930s and how they represented the (in)stability of the world during this period. In addition to the book, this project led to several publications in the Journal of the History of Economic Thought, the European Journal of the History of Economic Thought and the Revue d’Économie Politique. The second part of his thesis, conducted as a fellow at the Center for the History of Political Economy at Duke University, is concerned with the shift of market studies toward linear programming and game theory during the 1940s-1950s. Other publications and pre-prints can be found on his official page and his blog.
E-mail: vincent.carret@univ-lyon2.fr
Siméon ZEBINA is a master’s student at l’Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS) de Lyon. He is studying mainly econometrics, history economics and history of economic thought. He did a research internship in spring 2024 at Triangle (CNRS) under the supervision of Michaël Assous. He uptaded the website and coordinated the social media communication.
E-mail: simeon.zebina@ens-lyon.fr
Angelo Vieira begins is a PhD student at the Université Lumière Lyon 2, under the supervision of Michaël Assous and Roberto Lampa. His interests are transformations of capitalism and macroeconomic analysis. He does this primarily through the figure of Marxist economist Richard Goodwin, and other related economists such as Luigi Pasinetti. This is a historian’s work, drawing on the archives of the economists concerned. From February 2025 he will be responsible for updating this website and the related social network.
E- mail : angelo.vieira@univ-lyon2.fr
Alain Raybaut is a CNRS researcher at GREDEG, a multidisciplinary laboratory of the Université Côte d’Azur and CNRS, and member of the H2P2S Team (Recent History of Thought and Philosophy of the Social Sciences). His works are centred on the theme of economic dynamics, addressed by drawing on the history of economic thought, economic analysis, and the theory of dynamical and complex systems.
From his first works in the early 1990s he explores the nature and origins of macroeconomic instability by combining history of thought with a detailed study of the modern contributions. He has thus published extensively on the history and formalization of business cycles theories, particularly those related to nonlinear analysis and the institutional context of macroeconomic thought. He helped notably recover and re-evaluate French contributions, e.g. of Albert Aftalion and Maurice Allais on endogenous business cycle theory or the development of nonlinear modelling in France during the 1980s.
He has also explored the interaction between cycles and growth in macrodynamics and the of role of the banking and financial factors by developing several models of endogenous fluctuations in the Keynes, Minsky, Kaldor or Goodwin traditions. His other research interests have included contributions to the evolutionary literature on organisational dynamics and knowledge, as well as the modelling of virtual communities in digital markets. More recently, he has turned his attention to the application of dynamical systems to synchronization and coupling dynamics to reconsider the stability of the US National Banking System.
E-mail: Alain.RAYBAUT@univ-cotedazur.fr