Publications and communications of Martin François

Thesis and dissertations

Doctoral thesis

François, M. (2025). Addressing inequality in post-growth societies. A pragmatist inquiry into the realisation of income and wealth limits [Doctoral thesis, ULiège - Université de Liège]. ORBi-University of Liège. https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/337695

Scientific outputs

Articles in scientific journals with peer reviewing verified by ORBi or included in HEC Liège Academic Journal Guide

François, M., Jayeon Lee, Philippe Roman, & Maréchal, K. (2025). Why do people support or oppose maximum income? Ideological dispersion around four positions and shared concerns about implementation. Journal of Social Policy. doi:10.1017/S0047279425000133

François, M., Mertens de Wilmars, S., & Maréchal, K. (June 2023). Unlocking the potential of income and wealth caps in post-growth transformation: A framework for improving policy design. Ecological Economics, 208, 107788. doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2023.107788

Chapters in collective works

François, M. (2024). Le monde parallèle : Réguler l’extrême richesse pour résoudre l’équation « fin du monde, fin du mois ». In Delphine Masset & Jonathan Piron, Fin du monde, fin du mois, même combat ?Belgium: Editions ETOPIA & ALTURA.

Unpublished scientific communications

Scientific congresses and symposiums with international audience

On personal proposal

François, M., Dethier Fanny, & Maréchal, K. (25 June 2025). What are the policy design conditions required to gather majority support for maximum income policies? Evidence from a vignette survey experiment [Paper presentation]. ISEE 2025 & Degrowth - Building socially just postgrowth futures - linking theory and action, Oslo, Norway.

Lee, J., & François, M. (2024). Ecological ceiling and the super-rich: Arguments for an income cap policy from a moral economy perspective [Paper presentation]. 10th International Degrowth Conference and 15th Conference of the European Society for Ecological Economics, Pontevedra, Spain.

François, M., & Maréchal, K. (01 September 2023). How can policy design increase public support for maximum income? A qualitative vignette experiment [Paper presentation]. 21st ESPAnet Annual Conference 2023, Poland.

François, M. (14 June 2022). How to design Income and Wealth Cap Policies? An Analytical Framework built from 14 Policy Proposals [Paper presentation]. 14th conference of the European Society for Ecological Economics (ESEE), Pisa, Italy.

Scientific conferences in universities or research centers

François, M. (25 March 2024). How to increase public support for radical ideas in post-growth transformation? The case of maximum income [Paper presentation]. Seminar at the Centre for Social Policy Herman Deleeck (CSB Lunch Seminar), Antwerpen, Belgium.

François, M. (09 February 2024). Public support for radical ideas in post-growth transformation: the case of maximum income [Paper presentation]. Seminar at Lausanne Ecological Economics Lab - UNIL, Lausanne, Switzerland.

François, M. (06 June 2023). De Malthus à Kallis: une culture des limites pour dépasser les écueils des limites planétaires ? [Paper presentation]. Séminaire Interne - Centre d'économie sociale, Liège, Belgium.

François, M. (25 April 2023). Discussion autour de l'article "Unlocking the potential of income and wealth caps in post-growth transformation: A framework for improving policy design" [Paper presentation]. Intervention dans le cours intitulé "Economie Ecologique" donné Tom Bauler (ULB), Belgium.

François, M. (27 September 2022). How to design Income and Wealth Cap Policies in a postgrowth transformation? [Paper presentation]. Research Seminar @Lund University, Lund, Sweden.

Scientific congresses and symposiums with national audience

François, M. (15 February 2022). Managing inequalities in a postgrowth transformation: what contribution for income and wealth caps policies? [Paper presentation]. Internal Seminar @ Centre d'économie sociale.

Diverse speeches and writings

Communication in media

François, M. (2023). De l’importance des limites à la richesse pour financer la transition écologique et réduire les inégalités dans un monde post-croissance (titre original). France: Le Monde.