Lecturer and researcher in economic philosophy and the history of political thought
I work at the intersection of philosophy, economics, and history. My research examines sovereign debt — the public credit — as a social, financial and political institution. I study how citizens, experts and political actors have justified, contested, and given meaning to this puzzling artefact that somehow both strengthens and weakens representative regimes.
I hold a joint doctorate from the University of Lausanne and Université Paris-I Panthéon-Sorbonne (2021, awarded the Faculty Prize), and I have taught continuously for twenty years in universities and higher-education institutions across Switzerland, Japan, and France. I am currently a lecturer at the European Institute of Journalism (Paris), and I live in Groningen, in the Netherlands.
Drawn from my doctoral thesis and published by Classiques Garnier (2022), this study examines how the debt of the French state was debated during the crisis of 1787–1791 — reading public debt not as a neutral financial instrument but as a social and normative object, bound up with necessity, sovereignty, and the order of society.