Guy Numa
Assistant Professor
About
Role:
FacultyPosition:
- Assistant Professor
Concentration:
- History of Economic Thought
- Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics
- Industrial Organization
- Caribbean Political Economy
Department:
- Economics
Education:
- PhD, Economics, Université Paris Dauphine
Biography
Guy Numa is an Assistant Professor in the Economics Department at Colorado State University, a member of the advisory board of History of Political Economy, and a member of the editorial board of the Journal of the History of Economic Thought.
Prior to CSU, Numa was an Assistant Professor at the University of Massachusetts Boston, a Research Fellow at the Institute for New Economic Thinking, and an Arthur Sachs Research Scholar at Harvard University. Numa also served as Visiting Assistant Professor at SUNY Stony Brook, and Assistant Professor at Université de Picardie Jules Verne (France). Previous appointments include teaching positions at Barnard College, the New School, and Université Paris Dauphine (France).
In his research and teaching, Professor Numa specializes in History of Economic Thought, Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics, Industrial Organization, and Caribbean Political Economy. A common thread through each of these areas is the role and the scope of government in a market economy. Numa’s work has appeared in leading journals such as The Journal of Economic Perspectives, History of Political Economy, The Journal of the History of Economic Thought, and The European Journal for the History of Economic Thought. Numa is the author of a book on the regulation of the railroad industry published by Éditions Classiques Garnier. Professor Numa also co-authored two books on the 2009 social movements in the French Caribbean islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique.
Professor Numa has been awarded the 2016 Young Researcher Award of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought (ESHET). The prize is awarded to scholars below the age of 40 in recognition of outstanding publications in the history of economic thought.
Publications
Book
2013 Réglementations et concurrence dans les chemins de fer français 1823-1914 (Regulations and Competition in the French Railroad Industry), Paris: Éditions Classiques Garnier (332 p.); reviewed in The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 2015, 22 (1):140-44.
Articles
2020 “Money as a Store of Value: Jean-Baptiste Say on Hoarding and Idle Balances.”History of Political Economy 52 (5): 925–46.
2019 “Jean-Baptiste Say on Free Trade.” History of Political Economy 51 (5): 901-34.
2010 “J. S. Mill on Natural and Practical Monopoly.”Revue Économique 61 (2): 341-52.
Book Chapters
2009 “Les départements d’Outre-mer: des économies sous tutelle.” In L. Laventure, ed., La révolution antillaise. Paris: Eyrolles, pp. 29-48.
Book Reviews
2021 Review of Marginalism, by Bert Mosselmans. European Journal of the History of Economic Thouhgt.