Pierre Lemieux (economist)

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]

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, and the Le Figaro Économie, and La Tribune.[3]

Lemieux is the founder of the Iconoclastes book series at 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]

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).

Published in the early 1990s in Paris were 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 the 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 at the Belles Lettres in Paris, is an introduction to economics for the layman. The book was awarded a Turgot Prize from the Mises Institute.[7]

In another book published at 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.

• Du libéralisme à l'anarcho-capitalisme (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1983). Japanese translation: Tokyo, Shunju Sha, 1990.
• La souveraineté de l'individu (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1987). Spanish translation: Madrid, Union Editorial, 1992.
• L'anarcho-capitalisme (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France [collection "Que sais-je?"], 1988). Turkish translation: Istanbul, Iletisim Yayincilik AS, 1994.
• Apologie des sorcières modernes (Paris: Belles Lettres, 1991).
• Le droit de porter des armes (Paris: Belles Lettres, 1993).
• Smoking and Liberty: Government as a Public Health Problem (Montréal: Varia Press, 1997). French version: *Tabac et liberté. L'État comme problème de santé publique (Montréal: Varia, 1997).
• Confessions d'un coureur des bois hors-la-loi (Montréal: Varia, 2001).
• Comprendre l'économie. Ou comment les économistes pensent (Paris: Belles Lettres, 2008).
• Une crise peut en cacher une autre (Paris: Belles Lettres, 2010).
• Somebody in Charge: A Solution to Recessions? (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).
• The Public Debt Problem: A Comprehensive Guide (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013).
• Who Needs Jobs? Spreading Poverty or Increasing Welfare (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).
• What's Wrong with Protectionism? Answering Common Objections to Free Trade (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2018).

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