Maxime Desmarais-Tremblay
On Richard Musgrave's Approach to the Theory of Public Finance
Paternalism and the Public Household
On the Domestic Origins of Public Economics
History of Political Economy. 2021. 53(2): 179-211
Musgrave and the Idea of Community
In Welfare Theory, Public Action, and Ethical Values: Revisiting the History of Welfare Economics. Roger Backhouse, Antoinette Baujard and Tamotsu Nishizawa (eds). 2021. Cambridge University Press: 232-255
Normative and Positive Theories of Public Finance
Contrasting Musgrave and Buchanan
Journal of Economic Methodology. 2014. 21(3): 273-289
Richard Musgrave and the Art of Tax Reform
Richard Musgrave in Colombia: The Art of Tax Reform in a Developing Country
FinanzArchiv / Public Finance Analysis. 2023. 79(4): 332-360.
https://doi.org/10.1628/fa-2023-0017
Fiscal Policy, Public Goods, and Merit Goods
Musgrave, Samuelson, and the Crystallization of the Standard Rationale for Public Goods
History of Political Economy. 2017. 49(1): 59-92
The Normative Problem of Merit Goods
Forum for Social Economics. 2019. 48(3): 219-247
'The Fiscal Policy Seminar: Its Early Stages'
by Richard A. Musgrave
with Marianne Johnson
Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology. 2019. 37C: 147-179
Reflections on Law and Economics
Merit goods
with Péter Cserne
Encyclopedia of the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy.
Mortimer Sellers and Stephan Kirste (eds.) 2021. Springer.
Coase, New Institutional Economics, and the neglect of 'commons'
with
Aleksandar Stojanović
Review of Political Economy, 2022. 34(4): 665-691.
Calabresi on Merit Goods
Global Jurist. 2019. 19(3).
From Public Finance to Public Economics
A Special Issue of the European Journal of the History of Economic Thought
Marianne Johnson, Richard Sturn and I edited a special issue on the history of the 20th-century transition from public finance to public economics. With contributions from Steven Medema, Raphaël Fèvre & Thomas Mueller, Paolo Silvestri, Robert Dimand, David Coker & Alain Marciano, Ignacio Hauser, Benoît Walraevens, Herrade Igersheim, Danielle Guizzo & Carles Paré-Ogg.
Mapping the history of public economics in the 20th century
An introduction to the special issue
with Marianne Johnson and Richard Sturn
The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought. 2023. 30(5): 689-712
From Public Finance to Public Economics
(A long conclusion to the special issue)
with Marianne Johnson and Richard Sturn
The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought. 2023. 30(5): 934-964
Conceptual Genealogies
W.H. Hutt and the Conceptualization of Consumers' Sovereignty
Oxford Economic Papers. 2020. 72(4): 1050-1071.
The Birth of Homo Œconomicus
with Michele Bee
Journal of the History of Economic Thought. 2023. 45(1): 1-26.
A Genealogy of
Merit Wants
The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought. 2017. 24(3): 409-440
Prosopography of ESHET (with Andrej Svorenčík)
A prosopography of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought,
The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought. 2021. 28(6): 1005-1024.
https://doi.org/10.1080/09672567.2021.1987495
Final drafts of most of the papers on this page can be found in open access on SSRN
Publications en français
Walras, Musgrave et l’hétérogénéité entre les biens publics et les biens privés
A comparision between the conceptualisation of public goods offered by Léon Walras and Richard Musgrave
Œconomia, 2021, 11(2): 315-346.
Généalogie du principe d’équité horizontale
A contribution to the history of normativity in the theory of public finance
Revue de philosophie économique, 2021, 22(2): 149-176
Le problème de la justification du concept de bien méritoire en perspective
A reconstruction of the debate on the concept of merit goods since its inception
In L'accaparement des biens communs. Pierre Crétois (ed.), Presses Universitaires de Paris Nanterre. 2018
Book Reviews
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Melinda Cooper, Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance.
History of Political Economy. 2025. 57(1): 331-337.
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H. Spencer Banzhaf, Pricing the priceless: a history of environmental economics.
European Journal of the History of Economic Thought. 2024. 31(3): 530-532.
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Peter J. Boettke and Alain Marciano (eds), The Soul of Classical Political Economy: James M. Buchanan from the Archives. History of Political Economy. 2022. 54(2): 816-818.
- Ricardo F. Crespo, The Nature and Method of Economic Science: Evidence, Causality, and Ends. European Journal of the History of Economic Thought. 2022. 29(1): 188-190.
- Manuela Mosca, Monopoly Power and Competition. The Italian Marginalist Perspective. The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought. 2021. 28(1): 170-172. https://doi.org/10.1080/09672567.2021.1877879
- Niklas Olsen, The Sovereign Consumer. A New Intellectual History of Neoliberalism. Journal of the History of Economic Thought. 2020. 42(2): 288-290. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1053837219000415
- June A. Sekera, The Public Economy in Crisis. A Call for a New Public Economics. Œconomia. 2019. 9(3): 585-588. https://journals.openedition.org/oeconomia/6174
- Mary S. Morgan, The world in the model. How economists work and think. The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought. 2018. 25(3): 493-498. https://doi.org/10.1080/09672567.2018.1486577
- Ian Kumekawa, The First Serious Optimist. A. C. Pigou and the Birth of Welfare Economics. History of Economic Ideas. 2018. 26(1): 190-194. http://digital.casalini.it/10.19272/201806101009
- Wilfred Dolfsma, Government Failure: Society, Markets and Rules. Journal of Economic Issues. 2015. 49(4): 1140-1142. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00213624.2015.1105058
- Angela Kallhoff, Why Democracy Needs Public Goods. Œconomia. 4(2): 249-253. http://journals.openedition.org/oeconomia/378
Author's draft of the reviews are available on my Academia.edu page.
