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Gustave de Molinari, 1819-1912

Portrait of Molinari

Belgian-born Parisian journalist and radical laissez-faire ultra of the French Liberal School.  In the aftermath of the 1848 Revolutions, Molinari launched a journalist campaign against socialists of all stripes.  In a controversial 1849 article, Molinari argued that police and even defense should be provided by private companies.  Crossing Napoleon III, Molinari fled into exile in Belgium during the 1850s, where he became professor of political economy at the Musée royale de l'industrie belge.  

Molinari returned to Paris in the 1860s, where he became editor of the Journal de debats.  His 1880 book discussed how capitalist society evolved as a reaction against class-ridden and exploitative societies.  From 1881 to 1909, Molinari was the editor of the highly-influential Journal des économistes, which he maintained as a pulpit for the laissez-faire doctrines of the French Liberal School.

 

  

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Major Works of Gustave de Molinari

  • L'organisation de la liberté industrielle, 1846.
  • "Notice sure Necker", 1848, Mélanges d'économie politique, v.2 p.205 [HET]
  • Les Soirees de la Rue St Lazare, 1849.
  • "Lettre sur le prêt a intérêt" 1849, JdE (v.23, Jun), p.231 (on Bastiat's theory of capital and interest)
  • "De la production de la sécurité" 1849, J de économistes
  • "Frédéric Bastiat",  1851, JdE (v.28, Feb)  p.180
  • "Observations sur la formations des prix",  J de économistes, 1851, pp
  • Cours d'économie politique, 1854 [Lib]
  • Le Mouvement socialiste et les reunions publiques, 1870.
  • Les clubs rouges pendant le siège de Paris, 1871.
  • Le mouvement socialiste avant le 4 septembre 1870, 1872
  • L'Évolution économique du dix-neuvième siècle, 1880
  • L’Irlande, le Canada, Jersey, 1881.
  • L’évolution politique et la révolution, 1884.
  • Notions fondamentales d’Économie politique et programme économique, 1891 [Lib]
  • Grandeur et décadence de la guerre, 1898.
  • The Society of To-morrow: A forecast of its political and economic organisation, 1899 [Lib]
  • Les Problemes du XXe siecle, 1901.
  • Economie de l’histoire : théorie de l’évolution, 1908
  • Ultima Verba: Mon dernier ouvrage, 1911
  • Editor, Mélanges d'économie politique, v.1, v.2

 
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