Nationality French | Name Frederic Sautet | |
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Institution George Mason University | ||
School or tradition Austrian economics |
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Frédéric E. Sautet ([sotɛ]; born in 1968), is a French economist. He currently teaches economics in the United States.
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Biography
After studying for his PhD coursework (DEA) at the Institut d’études politiques de Paris, Sautet received his doctorate in economics from the University of Paris Dauphine (advisor: Pascal Salin). He pursued his postdoctoral studies at New York University under the auspices of Peter Boettke, Israel Kirzner and Mario Rizzo.
Former senior economist at the New Zealand Treasury and at the New Zealand Commerce Commission, he was also a senior fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University between 2004 and 2009.
He has lecturered at the University of Paris Dauphine, New York University, George Mason University, and is teaching at the Catholic University of America. He also regularly lectures at the Foundation for Economic Education.
Work and publications
Sautet’s research comprises entrepreneurship theory and the market process, cluster theory, economic development, and institutional economics. Among his recent publications are:
He is the co-editor with Peter Boettke of the Collected Works of Israel Kirzner in ten volumes published by Liberty Fund. He is the only author, besides Roger Garrison to have co-authored with Israel Kirzner.
He has published several public policy papers (e.g. on New Zealand, New Jersey, and Memphis, TN).
In 1996, he co-edited Action ou Taxation, a book on French public finance, with Philippe Lacoude. He published An Entrepreneurial Theory of the Firm with Routledge in 2000.
He is one of the main contributors to the Dictionnaire du libéralisme, edited by Mathieu Laine and published in 2012 by Larousse in Paris.
Media
Sautet regularly publishes in the media in France (Les Echos, Le Figaro, La Tribune) as well as in New Zealand (National Business Review, New Zealand Herald) and in the US (Forbes, The Star-Ledger).