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Academic Area

  • Economics
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Strategy, Management, and Operations
  • School

  • Busch School of Business
  • Dr. Frederic Sautet is an economist specializing in market process theory, entrepreneurship, and political economy. He teaches economics, entrepreneurship theory, the history of business and entrepreneurship, and management and organizations at the Busch School of Business. 

    He serves as Director of the Economics Area and Co-Director of the Entrepreneurship Program. Dr. Sautet is also a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Human Ecology, where he is a member of the House of Political Economy. He is the founder and director of the Röpke-Wojtyła Fellowship

    Dr. Sautet earned his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Paris and graduated from the Paris Institute of Political Sciences (Sciences Po). He completed postdoctoral research at New York University under the supervision of Professors Israel Kirzner and Mario Rizzo.

    “Catholic University is a unique institution of higher learning, as it offers a dynamic environment for the growth of knowledge that rests on hundreds of years of tradition whereby, for instance, the dignity of the human person, natural law, and Catholic social teaching meet 19th c. political economy, modern entrepreneurship theory, and virtue ethics in business.”

     Frederic Sautet