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JEROME ADOLPHE BLANQUI (1798-1854)

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 42 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JEROME ADOLPHE See also:BLANQUI (1798-1854)  , See also:French economist, was See also:born at See also:Nice on the 21st of See also:November 1798 . Beginning See also:life as a schoolmaster in See also:Paris, he was attracted to the study of See also:economics by the lectures of J . B . Say, whose See also:pupil and assist-See also:ant he became . Upon the recommendation of Say he was in 1825 appointed See also:professor of See also:industrial See also:economy and of See also:history at the See also:Conservatoire See also:des Arts et Metiers . In 1833 he succeeded Say as professor of See also:political economy at the same institution, and in 1838 was elected a member of the Academie des Sciences Morales et Politiques . In 1838 appeared his most important See also:work, Histoire de l'economie politique en See also:Europe, depuis See also:les anciens jusqu'd nos jours . He was indefatigable in See also:research, and for the purposes of his economic inquiries travelled over almost the whole of Europe and visited See also:Algeria and the See also:East . He contributed much to our knowledge of the conditions of the working-classes, especially in See also:France . Other See also:works of See also:Blanqui were De la situation economique et morale de l'Espagne en 1846; Resume de l'histoire du See also:commerce et de l'industrie (1826); Precis elementaire d'economie politique (1826); Les Classes ouvrieres en France (1848) .

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