Maxence Dutilleul

Maxence Dutilleul is a graduate of the École normale supérieure (ENS) Paris-Saclay (class of 2023) and earned a master’s degree in Economic and Social Sciences from Université Paris-Dauphine, EHESS, and MINES ParisTech (class of 2022). Before that, he completed a dual undergraduate degree in Sociology and Economics at ENS Paris-Saclay and Sorbonne University. In 2022-2023, he was a pre-doctoral visiting researcher at the University of Edinburgh, where he worked on macroeconomic forecasting. His research focuses on economic sociology and political economy.

Research Work

After working during his master’s degree on the CFA franc and subsequently on the use of economic science in central banks, Maxence Dutilleul is now pursuing a PhD in historical and comparative sociology devoted to housing affordability, based on an analysis of the French, American, and British trajectories. The dissertation examines the joint role of fiscal and monetary policies in the accumulation and valuation of assets, particularly real estate. It highlights the gradual emergence of a “double standard” in economic policymaking, characterized by strong sensitivity to inflation in consumer prices and wages, alongside a growing indifference to asset price inflation. The thesis places cultures of expertise and the categories of economic public action at the center of the analysis.

Publications

Dutilleul, Maxence (2025) “From Technical to Academic Central Banking: The Scientization of the Banque de France.” Finance and Society 11(2): 253–77.

Dutilleul, Maxence. (2025). Elizabeth Popp Berman (2022), Thinking like an Economist. How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy, Princeton, Princeton University Press. Gouvernement et action publique. 14(2), 123-126. 

Chalet L., Dutilleul Maxence, Fages V., Gayoso E., “Des visières à haut débit : un regard sociologique sur la mobilisation des makers face à la crise sanitaire”, Enjeux numériques, Annales des Mines, juin 2021.

“To make systems virtual is a tour de force of material configuration”, Interview with Professor Donald MacKenzie, SKAPE, November 2022.

Conferences

• (2025) "Un-planned, Uneven Comparisons: Contrastive Case Selection for Non-Linear Forms of Explanation", Journées d'Etudes Doctorales du CEE, December 2025.
• (2025) “Inflation Double Standard, Or: How America Learned To Stop Worrying and Love House Price Inflation”, Economic Sociology/Political Economy Summer School, Brown University
• 2023 Congress of Association Française de Sociologie, RT 12 Sociologie économique, Lyon : « Cartographie d'une configuration savoir-pouvoir : les chercheurs de la Banque Centrale Européenne ».
• European Society for the History of Science conference on Science Policy and the Politics of Science, Brussels 2022, special sessions “The Scientization of Central Banks”: “The Banque de France as a power-knowledge configuration: socio-historical case study of a ‘scientized’ central bank”.
• Seminar “Valeur, prix, politique” (IDHES, 11 février 2021): “Les makers pendant la crise sanitaire, un commerce hors marché: de l’organisation de la solidarité à l’épreuve de la certification” (with Chalet Léo, Fages Vony, Gayoso Emile).

Prizes and awards

2nd prize, Sociology and Economics, Concours Général, 2017

The Edge of Capital: A Comparative Historical Sociology of Housing Affordability in France, the United Kingdom, and the United States