Beatrice Cherrier is a historian of economics and associate professor at CREST,[1] CNRS, and ENSAE/Ecole Polytechnique, France.
[2] Her research interests include the history of economics since World War II.
[5] Beatrice Cherrier earned a BS in Economics from the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan and in Management Science from The University Paris XII in 2001, a Master of Arts in the Methodology of Economics from the University of Paris Sorbonne in 2004, a PhD in the History of Economics from the University of Paris X-Nanterre, and a Habilitation from the University of Caen in 2016.
She was a postdoctoral scholar at Duke University, an assistant professor at the University of Caen (Alençon Technical College) from 2012 to 2017, and served on the faculty of the CNRS & Théorie Économique, Modélisation, Application (THEMA), University of Cergy Pontoise as a tenured associate professor from 2017 to 2020.
[7] Professor Cherrier has studied how world events affected the intellectual development of Gunnar Myrdal, Jacob Marschak and Milton Friedman, and how economists’ individual visions combined in the development of the MIT economics department.