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François Divisia, 1889-1964.

Portrait of F. Divisia

 French engineer-economist.

Born in Tizi-Ouzou, Algeria to a family of French colonists. After a brilliant high school career in Algiers, François Divisia enrolled at the École polytechnique in 1910 and subsequently the École nationale des ponts et chaussées, where he came under the influence of Clément Colson.   Divisia interrupted his studies to serve in the French army during WWI.  He returned to the ENPC to compete his studies after the war,

From 1919, Divisia worked primarily as a government engineer for the next decade, but eventually began to do some part-time work on economics.  His first economic work (1926) introduced the "Divisia index"  applied to measure the monetary aggregates.  His 1928 treatise gave a more expansive view of Divisia's economics. In light of his contributions, Divisia was attached in 1930 to the French Ministry of National Education, and assigned to research and teaching posts.  He was a professor of economics at the ENPC from 1932 until 1950.  His 1962 work is considered a classic in econometrics.

 

  

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Major Works of François Divisia

  • L'Indice Monêtaire de la Théorie de la Monnaie, 1926.
  • Économique Rationelle, 1928.
  • L'Épargne et la Richesse Collective, 1928.
  • Expositions d'Économique, 3 volumes, 1951-65.
  • Traitement Économétrique de la Monnaie, l'Intérêt, l'Emploie, 1962.

 
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Resources on François Divisia

  • "François Divisia" by Rene Roy, 1965, Econometrica
  • Wikipedia

 

 
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