Levallois, Clement

PhD, Post-Doc


Contact Details

P: +31 10 408 2578
F: +31 10 408 9011
E: clevallois@rsm.nl

Room T 10-16
Erasmus Centre for Neuroeconomics
Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University
PO Box 1738
3000 DR Rotterdam
The Netherlands


Current Position

Post-Doc, Erasmus Centre for Neuroeconomics and Virtual Knowledge Studio

Fields of Interest

Research topic: History and Social Study of Neuroeconomics

  • History of science and its cultural context
  • Interdisciplinary boundaries
  • Asian economies


Academic appointments

Post-doc in Rotterdam School of Management and Virtual Knowledge Studio, 2008-2010
Honorary Visiting Research Fellow, City University London, 2007-2008
Research and Teaching Temporary Position (“ATER”), Université Paris X Nanterre, 2006-2007
Doctoral Fellowship (“Allocataire Momniteur Normalien”), Université Lumiere Lyon 2, 2003-2006
Lecturer of French, University of International Business and Economics in Beijing, 2002-2003

Education

  • PhD in Economics, Université Lumiere Lyon 2, Feb. 2008
  • Visiting Student at the CPNSS, London School of Economics, 2007 Master in Economics, Université Paris I Panthéon, 2002
  • B.A. in Modern Literature, Université Paris III Censier, 2002
  • Agrégation in Economics and Management Science, 2001 G
  • raduate from Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan, Economics and Management, 1998-2002


Presentations in international conferences

  • “Sociobiology before Sociobiology: Changing meanings (1945-1975)”, Joint Meeting of the British Society for the History of Science, the Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science, and the History of Science Society, Oxford, 4-6 July 2008.
  • “Natural Allies or Bitter Contestants? Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen and the Club of Rome”, Young Scholar session of the Annual Meeting of the History of Economics Society, Toronto, 27-30 June, 2008.
  • “The Biophysics of Alchian’s Economic Natural Selection”, Eleventh Annual Conference of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought (ESHET), Strasbourg, 5-7 July, 2007.
  • “Wilson’s Sociobiology and its Reception in Economics”, Siena meetings in the History of Economics, 2d Workshop, Università di Siena, Certosa di Pontignano, November 26-27, 2004.
  • “Economics and Edward O. Wilson’s Sociobiology: Interdisciplinary Fruitful Collaboration or Ideological Defense of a Genetic Capitalism ?”, VIIe Université d’été en Histoire de la pensée et méthodologie économiques, Maison du Séminaire, Nice, 29 Aug-3 Sept, 2004.


Publications

  • “One Analogy Can Hide Another: Physics and Biology in Alchian’s ‘Economic Natural Selection’”, History of Political Economy, vol.41, n°1, 2009 (Spring).


Working Papers

  • “Bridging the History of Sociobiology with Animal Social Behavior Studies” (Sept 2008)
  • “The Nine Lives of Altruism and Group Selection in Biology and Economics”(May 2008)
  • “Natural Allies or Bitter Contestants? Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen and the Club of Rome” (April 2008)
  • “Wilson’s Sociobiology and its Reception in Economics, 1975-1982” (Nov. 2004, last version May 2007)
  • “La critique d’Edith Penrose : Un révélateur de la place des analogies biologiques en sciences sociales dans l’immédiate après-guerre” (Jul. 2006) [In French, to be rewritten in English]


Affiliations

  • H2S, Cachan: 2003- to date
  • History of Science Society: 2003-to date
  • European Society for the History of Economic Thought: 2007
  • History of Economics Society: 2008
  • Society for Neuroeconomics: 2008