Sina Badiei

Sina Badiei is an associate professor at the University of Strasbourg (the Faculty of Economics and Management and the Bureau of Theoretical and Applied Economics). He holds a PhD in the history and philosophy of economics, which he defended in 2020 at the University of Toulouse. His doctoral work received the 2022 Best Thesis Award from the Charles Gide Association for the Study of Economic Thought. Former program director at the Collège International de Philosophie (Paris), he spent several years conducting postdoctoral research at the Walras-Pareto Center of the University of Lausanne, before joining the University of Strasbourg in 2024. His research, at the intersection of normative economics, the history of economic thought, and the philosophy of economics, focuses on the theoretical and philosophical foundations of economic analysis, particularly in the Marxist, Austrian (Mises and Hayek), Chicago (Friedman), and Lausanne (Walras and Pareto) schools. Since completing his PhD, he has been working primarily on the historical evolution of normative economics (welfare economics, social choice theory, capability approach), and on the role of basic needs in economic theories of justice and in ecological economics. His research aims, above all, to advance theoretical frameworks that enable rigorous, impartial analyses of norms and values in economics. He has published four books and numerous articles in scientific journals. His latest book, Normative Economics in the History of Economic Thought (Routledge, 2024), received the Best Book Award from the Italian Association for the History of Economic Thought (AISPE) in October 2025. As a project partner, he co-authored and currently serves as co-director of the research project “Normativity and its Foundations in Lausanne School and Normative Economics,” funded with CHF 1,243,907 (October 2024 for four years) by the Swiss National Science Foundation.