Pierre Lemieux (economist)

In 2013, he published The Public Debt Problem: A Comprehensive Guide.

Lemieux is a professor in the Department of Management Sciences at the University of Québec in Outaouais. He is also currently a senior fellow at the Montreal Economic Institute. During the winter of 2009, he was a visiting scholar in the Department of Economics at San Jose State University. Lemieux is also a senior affiliated scholar at the Mercatus Center, a non-profit think tank associated with George Mason University.

In another book published by Les Belles Lettres (Paris) in 2009, Une crise peut en cacher une autre, Lemieux argued that the Financial crisis of 2007–08 was a consequence of mounting state intervention.

His 2008 book Comprendre l'économie. Ou comment les économistes pensent (Understanding Economics: Or How Economists Think), published by the Belles Lettres foundation in Paris, is an introduction to economics for the layman. The book was awarded a Turgot Prize by the Mises Institute.

He went on in the early 1990s to publish Apologie des sorcières modernes (Apology of Modern Witches), in defense of insider trading, and Le droit de porter des armes (The Right to Keep and Bear Arms), in defense of this right. In late 1990, he published, in Montréal, a little book, in both an English and French version, in favor of the liberty to smoke tobacco: Smoking and Liberty: Government as a Public Health Problem.

His first books, published in Paris in the 1980s, were on the economics and political philosophy of anarcho-capitalism and classical liberalism: Du libéralisme à l'anarcho capitalisme (From Liberalism to Anarcho-Capitalism), La souveraineté de l'individu (The Sovereignty of the Individual), and L'anarcho-capitalisme (Anarcho-Capitalism).

Lemieux was born in Sherbrooke, Quebec in 1947. He earned a Master of Arts in Economics from the University of Toronto and another in Philosophy from the Université de Sherbrooke.