# Aurélien Goutsmedt (@aurelien-goutsmedt.com)

Profile: https://sifa.id/p/aurelien-goutsmedt.com
Headline: Postdoctoral Researcher at UC Louvain & Assistant Professor at ICHEC
Location: Brussels, Brussels Capital, Belgium

## About

I am a historian of economics and a political economist. I work on the history of economic ideas, economic expertise and economic policies (notably central banks' policies) since the 1970s. Focusing on Stagflation/Inflation.

I am also developing quantitative tools to support my research: scraping, bibliometrics, network analysis, natural language processing, etc. See my projects at https://github.com/agoutsmedt  Managing editor at OEconomia (https://journals.openedition.org/oeconomia/).

Find me also on https://bsky.app/profile/aurelien-goutsmedt.com

## Career

- **Assistant Professor at ICHEC Brussels Management School** (Sep 2024 - Present)
- **Postdoctoral Researcher at UCLouvain** (Oct 2021 - Present)
  Full-time · Louvain-la-Neuve, Région wallonne, BE
- **Postdoctoral Researcher at National Fund for Scientific Research** (Oct 2021 - Sep 2024)
  Louvain-la-Neuve, Région wallonne, BE
- **Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Université du Québec à Montréal** (Jan 2020 - Jan 2021)
- **Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Centre interuniversitaire de recherche sur la science et la technologie (CIRST)** (Jan 2020 - Jan 2021)
  Montréal, Québec, CA
- **Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Duke University** (Sep 2018 - Jul 2019)
- **Teaching and Research Assistant at University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne** (Oct 2016 - Aug 2018)
  Paris, FR

## Publications

- A History of Macroeconomics (Aug 2026) https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/2suyd_v1
- Companion application to "One Sentence at a Time: A Quantitative History of Rationality in Economic Thought" — Zenodo (Jun 2026) https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20558669
- Replication files to "One Sentence at a Time - A Quantitative History of Rationality in Economic Thought" — Zenodo (Jun 2026) https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20641721
- One Sentence at a Time: A Quantitative History of Rationality in Economic Thought (Dec 2025) https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/38na2_v1
- Redefining scientization: Central banks between science and politics — Finance and Society (Aug 2025) https://doi.org/10.1017/fas.2025.7
- Not a steamroller, a 3D process: Scientization at the Bank of England — Finance and Society (Aug 2025) https://doi.org/10.1017/fas.2025.8
- Economists, Economic Knowledge, and Central Banks (May 2025) https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/acymv_v1
- Modelling intervention: Barbara Bergmann’s micro-to-macro simulation projects — The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought (May 2025) https://doi.org/10.1080/09672567.2024.2433971
- Book review: Taming the Cycles of Finance?: Central Banks and the Macro-prudential Shift in Financial Regulation MatthiasThiemann, Taming the Cycles of Finance?: Central Banks and the Macro-prudential Shift in Financial Regulation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, (2024), 352 pp., £95.00 (hbk). IBSN 9781009233132 — Competition & Change (Apr 2025) https://doi.org/10.1177/10245294251319947
- Digital History of Macroeconomics — Zenodo (Jan 2025) https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14627002
- La BCE face à ses monstres : les transformations du cadrage de la stabilité des prix (1998-2023) — Revue française d'histoire économique (2025) http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/306437
- Becoming an Economist: A Database of French Economics PhDs — Zenodo (Dec 2024) https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14541427
- Ranystyle: Automated Bibliographic Reference Parsing and Cleaning — Zenodo (Jan 2024) https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.10458021
- networkflow: Functions for A Workflow to Manipulate Networks — Zenodo (Jan 2024) https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.10458040
- Six Decades of Economic Research at the Bank of England — History of Political Economy (2024) http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/267785
- To Change or Not to Change: The Evolution of Forecasting Models at the Bank of England — Journal of Economic Methodology (2024) http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/270921
- biblionetwork - An R Package for Creating Different Types of Bibliometric Networks — Zenodo (Feb 2023) https://zenodo.org/record/7677369
- Quantitative and Computational Approaches in the Social Studies of Economics — OEconomia (2023) https://doi.org/10.4000/oeconomia.15799
- The Computerization of Economics. Computers, Programming, and the Internet in the History of Economics — OEconomia (2023) https://doi.org/10.4000/oeconomia.16243
- An independent European macroeconomics? A history of European macroeconomics through the lens of the European Economic Review — European Economic Review (2023) http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85168508297&partnerID=MN8TOARS
- The ECB and the inflation monsters: strategic framing and the responsibility imperative (1998–2023) — Journal of European Public Policy (2023) http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85177065178&partnerID=MN8TOARS
- The costs of the war against inflation monsters: The ECB’s justifications of its interest rate hikes — Intersections of Finance & Society Conference (2023) http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/282696
- How the Phillips Curve Shaped Full Employment Policy in the 1970s: The Debates on the Humphrey-Hawkins Act — History of Political Economy (2022) http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85136819938&partnerID=MN8TOARS
- European Economics and the Early Years of the International Seminar on Macroeconomics — Revue d'économie politique (Aug 2021) http://dx.doi.org/10.3917/redp.314.0089
- From the Stagflation to the Great Inflation: Explaining the US economy of the 1970s — Revue d'économie politique (Jul 2021) http://dx.doi.org/10.3917/redp.313.0239
- Macroeconomics at the Crossroads: Stagflation and the Struggle between "Keynesian" and New Classical Macroeconometric Programs (Feb 2019) https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/y364t
- An Agenda without a Plan. Robert E. Lucas's trajectory through the public debate,Un programme sans plan. La trajectoire de Robert E. Lucas à travers le débat public — OEconomia (2019) http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85082022856&partnerID=MN8TOARS
- Economics as a Public Science, Part II: Institutional Settings — OEconomia (2019) https://doi.org/10.4000/oeconomia.6190
- Reacting to the Lucas critique: The Keynesians’ replies — History of Political Economy (2019) http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85068520981&partnerID=MN8TOARS
- Robert J. Gordon and the introduction of the natural rate hypothesis in the Keynesian framework — History of Economic Ideas (2018) http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85062864297&partnerID=MN8TOARS
- Thomas sargent facing robert lucas: Another ambition for new classical economics,Thomas Sargent face à Robert Lucas : Une autre ambition pour la Nouvelle Economie Classique — OEconomia (2018) http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85062851977&partnerID=MN8TOARS
- Les macroéconomistes et la stagflation : essais sur les transformations de la macroéconomie dans les années 1970 (Dec 2017) https://doi.org/10.70675/0719c79eze174z4ebdz89cdz1aeeeda2a245
- Les macroéconomistes et la stagflation : essais sur les transformations de la macroéconomie dans les années 1970 (2017) http://www.theses.fr/2017PA01E031/document
- The New Classical Explanation of the Stagflation: A Psychological Way of Thinking (Feb 2016) https://shs.hal.science/halshs-01281962
- Criticizing the Lucas Critique: Macroeconometricians' Response to Robert Lucas — SSRN Electronic Journal (2015) https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2837766
- L'axiomatique dans les preuves d'existence d'un équilibre général, chez Arrow et Debreu http://dumas.ccsd.cnrs.fr/docs/00/90/98/94/PDF/2013-_GOUTSMEDT_Axi.pdf
- Supplementary materials to "The ECB and the Inflation Monsters: Strategic Framing and the Responsibility Imperative (1998-2023)" https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10043949
- Technical Appendix to Six Decades of Economic Research at the Bank of England https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8436759

## Skills

### Technical
- Data Science
- Data Visualization
- Machine learning
- Natural language processing
- Python (langage de programmation)
- quarto
- R
- R Markdown
- RStudio
- Scraping

## Education

- **Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne** — PhD, Economics (Sep 2013 - Dec 2017)
- **Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne** — Master, Economics and Sociology (Sep 2011 - Jun 2013)

## Languages

- French (native)
- English (full professional)

## Links

- Website: https://aurelien-goutsmedt.com
- Fediverse: https://mastodon.social/@agoutsmedt (verified)
- GitHub: https://github.com/agoutsmedt (verified)
- ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3788-7237 (verified)
- Codeberg: https://codeberg.org/agoutsmedt (verified)
- bsky: https://bsky.app/profile/aurelien-goutsmedt.com
- tangled: https://tangled.org/did:plc:l4mvwchewa4b2evkd36m2avr