Maxence Dutilleul

Maxence Dutilleul graduated from Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS) Paris-Saclay in 2023 and earned a Master degree in social sciences and economics from Université Paris-Dauphine, EHESS and MINES ParisTech in 2022. Before that, he took a double Bachelor programme in sociology and economy at ENS Paris-Saclay and Sorbonne University. In 2022-2023, he was a pre-doctoral invited researcher at the University of Edinburgh where he worked on macroeconomic prevision. He specialises in economic sociology and political economy.

Research Work

For his PhD thesis, Maxence Dutilleul is working on the history of monetary stabilisation policies in Europe, focusing in particular on the role of macroeconomists and economic forecasting in the production of monetary order, under the supervision of Matthias Thiemann. His previous work focused on the use of economic science by central banks and the history of studies at the Banque de France. In parallel with his doctoral research, he is pursuing a research programme started in 2020 on the history of controversies surrounding the West African Economic and Monetary Union (CFA Franc) and the Franc Zone.

Publications

Chalet L., Dutilleul M., 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

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