Philippe R. DeVillé (born 5 August 1944) is a Belgian economist, and Emeritus Professor of Economics at the University of Louvain, known for his contributions in the field of socioeconomic systems theory in collaboration with Tom R. Burns and others.
[1] DeVille received his Master of Science in economics at the Université catholique de Louvain in 1967.
DeVille started his academic career as Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of New Hampshire in 1973.
In 1986/87 he has been a fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences in Uppsala, Sweden.
[2] Since the 1970s DeVille collaborated with Tom R. Burns and a number of other researchers, such as Walter F. Buckley, Matthew Cooper, Thomas Baumgartner, David Meeker, Bernard Gauci[3] developing new theories in the field of social systems theory.