Louise Villeneuve
Staff details
Position
Lecturer in Economics
Department
Institute of Management Studies
l.villeneuve (@gold.ac.uk)
Links
Goldsmiths Research Centres/Groups
Louise's research focuses on the historical and philosophical foundations of economics.
I joined the IMS in 2019 as a doctoral researcher in economics. My research explores the history of consumption at the intersection of the history of economic thought and intellectual history. It examines the emergence of discourses on consumption in the 18th and 19th centuries and how they contributed to the neoliberal paradigm shift of the 20th century. The study seeks to understand how political economists conceptualised consumption during this period and aims to uncover overlooked perspectives on consumption lost during the development of economic science, offering alternative interpretations to those dominant since the late 19th century.
Since 2023, I have been a Lecturer in Economics and a coordinator of Learning and Teaching (L&T). I convene the History of Economic Ideas and Economic History modules. I also have teaching experience in Introductory Economics, Public Economics, and Microeconomics.
I have served as the PhD representative for the IMS since 2021.
Academic qualifications
- MSc in Development Economics, SOAS University of London 2016
- Master in International Economics, Université Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas 2014
- Bachelor in Economics, Université Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas 2013
Research interests
History of economic thought
Philosophy of economics
Intellectual history
History of consumption
Grants and awards
2024:
Winner of the ESHET Young Scholar Seminar Grant
27th Annual ESHET Conference, University of Graz (Austria) 9 - 11 May, "Economics and policy-making: From art and craft to welfare optimization and evidence-based policies"
2024:
Summer Institute on the History of Economics
Center for the History of Political Economy, Duke University (North Carolina, USA)
Publications and research outputs
Article
Villeneuve, Louise. 2024. John Stuart Mill and the art of consumption. The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 31(1), pp. 40-58. ISSN 0967-2567
Villeneuve, Louise. 2023. John Stuart Mill, socialist (Book Review). The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 30(1), pp. 153-155. ISSN 0967-2567
Villeneuve, Louise. 2020. A contemporary historiography of economics (Book Review). The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 27(5), pp. 799-801. ISSN 0967-2567
Conferences and talks
2024:
Consumption and Waste in the political economy of the early 19th century
54th annual meeting of The History of Economic Thought Society (THETS), University of Greenwich, London
2023:
The Desire to Consume and the Origins of Adam Smith's Division of Labour
25th ESHET Summer School on History of Economic Thought, Economic Philosophy and Economic History. University of Turin, Italy
2022:
John Stuart Mill and the Art of Consumption
19th STOREP Annual Conference, Universita Degli Studi Della Tuscia Viterbo, Italy.
2021:
The Conceptualisations of Consumption in Political Economy
23rd ESHET Summer School on History of Economic Thought, Economic Philosophy and Economic History. Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne