Antoine Missemer, Chargé de recherche CNRS en économie et histoire de la pensée économique

Jeudi 21 mai 2026, nous accueillons Antoine Missemer, Chargé de recherche CNRS au Centre international de recherche sur l’environnement et le développement, CIRED.

• Histoire de l’économie de l’environnement et de l’énergie

Titre de sa présentation : Searching for the Origins of Hotelling's Model (1931)

Résumé : Harold Hotelling's 1931 article, *"The Economics of Exhaustible Resources,"* is a seminal work in natural resource economics, introducing the famous *Hotelling's rule* still widely used in energy and climate economics. This presentation explores the origins and impact of Hotelling's model, examining why it was considered innovative and how a young economist and mathematician in the 1920s came to study natural resources. Drawing on an in-depth analysis of Hotelling's personal archives at Columbia University, the study highlights the influence of his career and preparatory work on the article and on the evolution of the field up to the present day.
The presentation particularly references two recent publications:

https://doi.org/10.1257/jel.20231700](https://doi.org/10.1257/jel.20231700
https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-9548337](https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-9548337.
 

Le séminaire a lieu à 13h30, au GAEL, en salle 227.