Tradition and innovation at the turn of the twentieth century

Alain Beraud and Claire Silvant ()
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Claire Silvant: TRIANGLE - Triangle : action, discours, pensée politique et économique - ENS de Lyon - École normale supérieure de Lyon - Université de Lyon - UL2 - Université Lumière - Lyon 2 - IEP Lyon - Sciences Po Lyon - Institut d'études politiques de Lyon - Université de Lyon - UJM - Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Étienne - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, UL2 - Université Lumière - Lyon 2

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Abstract: This chapter is devoted to the developments of economic thought in France between 1870 and the First World War. After several decades of institutional and intellectual dominance, liberal thinking is on the wane and is being challenged from many sides. The creation of new academic journals, and the expansion of political economy in French universities largely benefits to a new generation of economists who are open to protectionist and social ideas, and turned towards empiricism and history. Charles Gide (1847–1932), Paul Cauwès (1843–1917), Clément Juglar (1819–1905) and Albert Aftalion (1874–1956), among others, embody these new insights. The chapter concludes with a presentation of the decisive contributions to economic analysis of some engineers-economists – Clément Colson, Marcel Lenoir, Maurice Potron - and mathematicians – Joseph Bertrand, Louis Bachelier - over the period.

Date: 2023-08-23
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Published in Faccarello, Gilbert; Silvant, Claire. A history of economic thought in France. Vol. 2, The long nineteenth century, 1, Routledge, pp.162-194, 2023, ⟨10.4324/9780429202407-8⟩

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DOI: 10.4324/9780429202407-8

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