Professor Jean-Paul Carvalho
Professor of Political Economy, Department of Economics
About
Jean-Paul Carvalho is Professor of Political Economy in the Department of Economics at the University of Oxford, Fellow of New College, and Director of Oxford Elevate.
His expertise lies in the institutional drivers of economic performance, encompassing AI, financial markets, and social dynamics.
Professor Carvalho is Associate Editor of the Quarterly Journal of Economics, Fellow of the Royal Economic Society, and convenor of the Political Economy group at Oxford. Previously, he held positions at UC Irvine, where he directed the Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences (2017–2019), and was a visiting scholar at Harvard, Stanford, NYU, and Warwick. He was educated at Oxford (Monash Scholar) and the University of Western Australia.
Expertise
- Economics of AI
- Financial market dynamics (trends, crises, fragility)
- Geoeconomics
- Social dynamics (e.g. cultural shifts, changes in consumer behavior)
Selected publications
- Zero-Sum Environments, the Evolution of Effort-Suppressing Beliefs, and Economic Development with Augustin Bergeron, Joseph Henrich, Nathan Nunn, Jonathan Weigel (2023)
- The Political-Economic Risks of AI (2025)
- Resisting Education (2024)
- Intersectionality: Affirmative Action with Multidimensional Identities (2024)
- The representation dynamic and the “normalization” of group differences (2024)
- Radicalisation (2023)
- Identity and underrepresentation: Interactions between race and gender (2022)