Frederic Sautet
Frederic Sautet
- Mercatus Center Senior Research Fellow, Social Change Project
- Adjunct Professor of Economics, George Mason University
Frederic Sautet is a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. He is the former senior editor of the Mercatus Policy Series. He is also an adjunct professor of economics and, as a member of the graduate faculty at George Mason University, he serves on several PhD dissertation committees.
His work experience includes management strategy at General de Service Informatique and public policy at the New Zealand Commerce Commission and the New Zealand Treasury. He currently focuses, among other things, on entrepreneurship in theory and policy.
Dr. Sautet is the co-author of Action ou Taxation (published in 1996 by Editions Slatkine, Geneva, and co-edited with Philippe Lacoude), An Entrepreneurial Theory of the Firm (published in 2000 by Routledge, London). His writings in economics have been published or are forthcoming in Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice, The Independent Review, Le Journal des Economistes et des Etudes Humaines, The Review of Austrian Economics, The New Zealand Law Journal, International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, and other scholarly publications. He is a contributor to the Handbook of Research on Clusters, The New Handbook on Austrian Economics (Peter Boettke Ed.), and Making Poor Nations Rich: Entrepreneurship and the Process of Development (Benjamin Powell Ed. with a foreword by Deepak Lal). He is the co-editor with Peter Boettke of The Collected Works of Israel Kirzner published by Liberty Fund in ten volumes. He is also a frequent contributor to Le Figaro and other media outlets.
He also has many publications on policy issues in the Mercatus Policy Series, the New Zealand Ministry of Economic Development Occasional Paper Series, the New Zealand Business Roundtable policy papers, and other outlets. Dr. Sautet has consulted with many government agencies, international organizations, and policy institutes, among which the New Zealand Ministry of Economic Development, the New Zealand Business Roundtable, the French Government, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, and Excellence in Government. He is also a co-blogger of The Austrian Economists blog.
Dr. Sautet earned a doctorate in economics from the Université de Paris Dauphine and did the course work for his doctorate at the Institut des Etudes Politiques in Paris. He also studied at New York University under the auspices of Prof. Israel Kirzner and Mario Rizzo as a visiting scholar and post-doctorate fellow.
