Pierre Lemieux (economist)

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Pierre Lemieux
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Alma mater University of Toronto (MA)
Université de Sherbrooke (MA)
Occupation(s)Economist, Author

Pierre Lemieux is a Canadian economist whose writings straddle economic and political theory, public choice, public finance, and public policy. He lives in Maine.

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Early life and education

Lemieux was born in Sherbrooke, Quebec in 1947. He earned a Master of Arts in Economics from the University of Toronto and another in Philosophy from the Université de Sherbrooke. [1]

Career

Lemieux is a professor in the Department of Management Sciences at the University of Québec in Outaouais. He is also currently a senior fellow at the Montreal Economic Institute. During the winter of 2009, he was a visiting scholar in the Department of Economics at San Jose State University. Lemieux is also a senior affiliated scholar at the Mercatus Center, a non-profit think tank associated with George Mason University. [2]

He has been a columnist for the Western Standard and has published pieces in several financial newspapers, including The Wall Street Journal , The National Post , the Le Figaro Économie, and La Tribune. [3]

Lemieux is the founder of the Iconoclastes book series published by Les Belles Lettres. [4]

He has also been an occasional consultant for a few national and international corporations. He is a frequent contributor to Regulation, Econlib.org, The Hill, and The Maine Wire. [5] [6]

Scholarship

His first books, published in Paris in the 1980s, were on the economics and political philosophy of anarcho-capitalism and classical liberalism: Du libéralisme à l'anarcho capitalisme (From Liberalism to Anarcho-Capitalism), La souveraineté de l'individu (The Sovereignty of the Individual), and L'anarcho-capitalisme (Anarcho-Capitalism).

He went on in the early 1990s to publish Apologie des sorcières modernes (Apology of Modern Witches), in defense of insider trading, and Le droit de porter des armes (The Right to Keep and Bear Arms), in defense of this right. In late 1990, he published, in Montréal, a little book, in both an English and French version, in favor of the liberty to smoke tobacco: Smoking and Liberty: Government as a Public Health Problem.

His 2008 book Comprendre l'économie. Ou comment les économistes pensent (Understanding Economics: Or How Economists Think), published by the Belles Lettres foundation in Paris, is an introduction to economics for the layman. The book was awarded a Turgot Prize by the Mises Institute. [7]

In another book published by Les Belles Lettres (Paris) in 2009, Une crise peut en cacher une autre, Lemieux argued that the Financial crisis of 2007–08 was a consequence of mounting state intervention.

In 2013, he published The Public Debt Problem: A Comprehensive Guide.

Published books

Other publications

Pierre Lemieux has published a number of academic articles and several op-eds. His academic articles include:

He was also co-translator of two books:

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References

  1. "Pierre Lemieux | Montreal Economic Institute". www.iedm.org. Retrieved 2020-03-11.
  2. "Pierre Lemieux". Mercatus Center. 2018-06-14. Retrieved 2020-03-10.
  3. See for example http://www.latribune.fr/opinions/tribunes/20120319trib000689070/newt-gingrich-va-a-l-essence-du-probleme.html
  4. Times Literary Supplement, June 7, 1991.
  5. Takala, Rudy (2018-08-25). "Unlearn what you know about exports". The Hill . Retrieved 2020-03-11.
  6. Robinson, Steve (2013-06-14). "Op-Ed: A (former) Quebecer in Yankee country". The Maine Wire. Retrieved 2020-03-11.
  7. "Le professeur Pierre Lemieux obtient un Prix Turgot pour son livre Comprendre l'économie," press release from the Université du Québec en Outaouais, January 25, 2009.