Jérôme-Adolphe Blanqui
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Jérôme-Adolphe Blanqui (November 21, 1798 – January 28, 1854) was a French economist. His most important contributions were made in labour economics, economic history and especially the history of economic thought, in which field his 1837 treatise has been the first major work. He was a disciple of Jean-Baptiste Say to whom he succeeded in 1833 to the chair of political economy at the Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers, and a free trader.
Works
Blanqui's major work is Histoire de l'économie politique en Europe depuis les anciens jusqu'à nos jours (1837), translated in English in 1880 as History of Political Economy in Europe. His other publications include Résumé de l'histoire du commerce et de l'industrie (1826), Précis élémentaire d'économie politique(1826), De la situation économique et morale de l'Espagne (1846) and Les classes ouvrières en France (1848).
Besides journalistic articles, Blanqui published also:8-
- Travels in England and Scotland (1824);
- Journey to Madrid (1826);
- A series of Reports on the Products of French Industry in 1827 (1827);
- The English Minister Huskisson, and his Economic Reform;
- Report on the Economic and Moral Condition of Corsica (1838);
- Report on the Economic Condition of the French Possessions in Algeria (1840);
- Voyage en Bulgarie pendant l'année 1841
- Report on the World's Fair in London (1851); and
- Life and Work of Jean Baptiste Say.
A series of letters between Blanqui and Emile de Girardin, in which free trade and protection were discussed, appeared in 1846 and 1847.
