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 the field of economics. My research focuses on the history of the concept of consumption in economic thought at the intersection of the history of economic thought and intellectual history. It examines the emergence of discourses on consumption in the political economy of the 18th and 19th centuries. It seeks to explain how the concept of consumption evolved into a specialised form of economic knowledge, which was subsequently incorporated into modern economics.
Since 2023, I have been a Lecturer in Economics and a coordinator of Learning and Teaching (L&T). I convene two core modules at the UG level: History of Economic Ideas and Economic History. I also have teaching experience in Introductory Economics, Public Economics, and Intermediate Microeconomics.
I am also a personal tutor and the PhD representative for the IMS.
Academic qualifications
- PhD in Economics (expected) 2025
- MSc in Development Economics, SOAS University of London 2016
- Master in Economics and Management, Université Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas 2014
- Bachelor in Economics and Management, Université Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas 2013
Research interests
History of economic thought
Intellectual history
Philosophy of economics
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 (Full Scholarship)
Center for the History of Political Economy, Duke University (North Carolina, USA)
Publications and research outputs
Article
- John Stuart Mill and the art of consumption 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
- John Stuart Mill, socialist (Book Review) 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
- A contemporary historiography of economics (Book Review) 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
2025:
Jevons and the Psychological Foundations of Consumption
28th Annual Conference of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought (ESHET), University of Turin Italy
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