Gaëtan Pirou
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Gaëtan Pirou (14 April 1886 – 24 February 1946) was a French economist.
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Biography
Gaëtan Pirou was born at Le Mans. He was a professor of economics at the law faculties of Bordeaux and Paris and one of the editors, with Charles Rist, of the Revue d'économie politique. Pirou was the author of several works on economic doctrine and on American institutionalist economists.
In addition to his position as professor at the University of Bordeaux and then Paris, he was chief of Paul Doumer's cabinet staff when the latter was president of the Senate, between 1927 and 1931.
A thesis prize in economics bears his name.
Works
- "Proudhonisme et Marxisme," La Revue du Mois, Vol. XX, No. 117 (1919)
- Les Doctrines économiques en France depuis 1870 (1925)
- Georges Sorel (1847-1922) (1927)
- Doctrines sociales et Science économique (1929)
- León Duguit et l'Economie Politique (1933)
- Les Théories de l'équilibre économique: L. Walras & V. Pareto (1934)
- La Crise du capitalisme (1934)
- Le Corporatisme (1935)
- Noveaux aspects du corporatisme (1935)
- La Monnaie française depuis la guerre (1914-1936) (1936)
- La Monnaie française de 1936 à 1938 (1938)
- Essais sur le Corporatisme (1938)
- Néo-libéralisme, néo-corporatisme, néo-socialisme (1939)
- L'Utilité marginale de C. Menger a J.-B. Clark (1945)
References
- Rist, Charles; Julliot de La Morandière, Pierre Crié, Roger Picard, Maurice Romanet, René Cassin, et al., La Vie et la Pensée de Gaëtan Pirou. Paris: Librairie du Recueil Sirey (1948).
