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Jérôme-Adolphe Blanqui, 1798-1854. 

Economist of the French Liberal School and head of the École de Commerce in Paris. 

Son of a magistrate from Nice, Jerome Adolphe Blanqui was educated at Nice and then pursued his higher studies in Paris from 1814.  Adolphe is the older brother of the socialist revolutionary, Louis-Auguste Blanqui, who was active in both the 1830 and 1848 revolutions (thus Adolphe Blanqui is often referred to as "Blanqui aîné").  

Adolphe Blanqui began as an instructor at l'Institution Massin, teaching chemistry and pharmacology.  He came into contact with Jean-Baptiste Say, who encouraged him to study economics, and helped him secure a chair in History and Industrial Economy at the École de Commerce in 1825.  In 1830, he became the director of the  École.  In 1833,  Blanqui succeeded Say in the professorship in political economy at Conservatoire des Arts et Metiers in Paris in 1833.  Blanqui was elected a member of the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques in 1836.

Adolphe Blanqui's Histoire (1837), is one of the first comprehensive histories of economic thought.  His lectures at the École and the Conservatoire in the late 1830s were widely attended.  His lecture notes published by his students. 

Blanqui was a close follower of Adam Smith and J.B. Say, and a leading member of the French Liberal School.  He was one of the founders of the Journal des économistes in 1841 and an editor of the Dictionnaire.  Blanqui had an active interest in the budding industrial revolution.  He traveled extensively, throughout France, England, Italy, Spain, Germany, Serbia, Bulgaria, etc., compiling observations about industrial development and economic systems. In 1840, he delivered one of the first economic reports on Algeria (which had been conquered by France in 1830), and an  report on the French working class in 1848.  Towards the end of his life, Blanqui had undertaken an extensive three-year study for the Academie on French agricultural labor, but died before he deliver his report.

Blanqui served as deputy in the French parliament between 1846 and 1848.

 

  

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Major Works of Adolphe Blanqui 

  • Voyage d'un jeune Francais en Angleterre et en Ecosse, 1823 [bk]
  • Résumé de l'histoire du commerce et de l'industrie, 1826 [1857 ed.]
  • Précis élémentaires d'économie politique, 1826 [bk] [1828 German ed. bk av], [1857 ed]
  • Histoire de l'exposition des produits de l'industrie française en 1827, 1827 [bk, av]
  • Histoire d'économie politique en Europe, depuis les anciens jusqu'à nos jours, 1837  [v.1 ct, v2, ct, (av,bnf)] [1842 ed., v.1, v.2 (av)] [1843 ed.] [1860 ed., v.1, v.2]  [1839 Spanish ed, ed], [1880 English ed.]
  • Cours d'économie industrielle 1836-37, 1837 [bk; bnf]
  • Cours d'économie industrielle 1837-38, 1838 [v.1, v2]
  • Cours d'économie industrielle 1838-39, 1839 [bk, ct]
  • Algérie, 1840 [bk]
  • Considérations sur l'état social de la Turquie d'Europe, 1842 [bk]
  • Bibliographie des principaux ouvrages d'economie politique, 1842 [bk] -  extract from Blanqui's Histoire
  • "Preface" to new 1843 ed. of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations.
  • "Economistes Modernes - Turgot", Revue des deux mondes, p.412
  • Voyage en Bulgarie pendant l'année 1841, 1845 [bk]
  • Des classes ouvrières en France, pendant l'année 1848, 1849  [Pt.1, Pt.2], [bnf]
  • "Tableau des populations rurales de la France en 1850," Journal des economistes, 1851, (Jan Pt.1, Sep. Pt.2)

 
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