Clément-Joseph Garnier, 1813-1881.  

French liberal journalist and economist (not to be confused with Comte Germain Garnier)

Originating from a humble farming family in the environs of Nice (southern France).  Joseph Garnier enrolled in 1829 at the Ecole Supérieure du Commerce, and became a protegé of Adolphe Blanqui (who would later become his father in law).  At Blanqui's recommendation, Garnier stayed on as a teacher there, and simultaneously launched a parallel career as a journalist, writing primarily economic pieces.

In 1835, Joseph Garnier rose to became editor of Le National, the famous liberal newspaper launched by Adolphe Thiers and historian François-Auguste Mignet back in 1830, that had played such an important role in the July Revolution.

In 1841, Garnier and the publisher Guillaumin launched the Journal des  économistes, the first European journal dedicated to economics proper.  The next year, Garnier became a founding member of the Société d'Économie Politique and its annals (Annuaire de l'économie politique) in 1844.  Garnier helped later found the more politically-active Association pour la liberté des échanges (with Bastiat), and its associated journal Libre échange and later on (1848) the newspaper Jacques Bonnehomme to promote the cause of free trade and laissez faire.

In 1846, Garnier became the first professor of economics at the École des Ponts et Chaussées, the old citadel of the engineer-economists.

In 1876, Garnier became a senator in the French parliament.

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