Louis Rouanet is Assistant Professor of Economics at the Hamilton School. His work focuses on public choice and economic history. Rouanet earned his Ph.D. in Economics from George Mason University and holds a B.A. and an M.A. from Sciences Po. He serves as an associate editor at Public Choice.
Rouanet’s research uses economics to explain political and historical phenomena, including the design of constitutions, the politics of money and inflation, conscription, wartime price controls, and the political consequences of land reform. His current project examines the political consequences of the sale of confiscated lands during the French Revolution.
On the Tendency of Revolutions to Devour Their Own Children, Public Choice (2024).
Assignats or Death: Inflationary Finance in Revolutionary France (with Bryan Cutsinger and Joshua Ingber), European Economic Review (2023).
The Redistributive Politics of Monetary Policy (with Peter Hazlett), Public Choice (2023).
The Calculus of American Indian Consent: The Law and Economics of Tribal Constitutions (with Ennio Piano), Public Choice (2023).
Drafting the Great Army (with Ennio Piano), Journal of Economic History (2023).
Foutu Maximum: The Political Economy of Price Controls during the French Revolution, Explorations in Economic History (2023).
The Interest-Group Origins of the Bank of France, Public Choice (2021).
Filling the Ranks: The Remplacement Militaire in Post-Revolutionary France (with Ennio Piano), European Review of Economic History (2019).
WORKING PAPERS:
Long Live the Republic: The Political Consequences of Revolutionary Land Redistribution (with Ronan Tallec), R&R at the Journal of Political Economy.
The Politics of Railroads (with Ronan Tallec and Anne Alonzo).
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