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Sébastien Lechevalier is an Economist, Professor at the School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS) in Paris, specialised in the study of Asian Capitalisms, with a focus on the relations between technologies and societies. He is the founder and the president of the Fondation France-Japon de l’EHESS (FFJ). He is also an International Senior Fellow at the Canon Institute for Global Studies (CIGS). He is editor of Socio-Economic Review and monthly columnist for Le Monde.

He is the principal investigator of INNOVCARE (2024-2028): “Care-led innovation: the case of eldercare in France and in Japan” (Funded by “PPR Autonomie, France 2030”). He also has been the principal investigator of INCAS (2015-2019): Understanding Institutional Change in Asia: a Comparative perspective with Europe (Funded by HORIZON 2020 MARIE SKŁODOWSKA-CURIE, RISE SCHEME).

MAJOR PUBLICATIONS

!NEW! Yuko Tamaki Welply, Sébastien Lechevalier, “‘Social’ robot and social relations in care settings: Undefined positionality and fixed temporality”, Technology in Society, Volume 77, 2024

!NEW! Lechevalier, S. (2024), “Society 5.0 and new capitalism: complementarities and contradictions”, Asia-Pacific Business Review 30 (3)
This publication is included in a special issue edited by Hugh Whittaker and Yoshifumi Nakata, “Reforming Japanese capitalism”. Read the special issue

– Sébastien Lechevalier (Ed.) Innovation Beyond Technology. Science for Society and Interdisciplinary Approaches, Springer, 2019

– David Chiavacci & Sébastien Lechevalier (Ed.) Japanese Political Economy Revisited. Abenomics and Institutional Change, Routledge, 2018

– Sébastien Lechevalier The Great Transformation of Japanese Capitalism, Routledge, 2014
French version | English version | Japanese version


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