JEROME ADOLPHE

See also:

• JEROME ADOLPHE BLANQUI (1798-1854)
• BLANQUI, LOUIS AUGUSTE (18o5-1881)

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