CLEMENT

See also:

• JOSEPH
• JOSEPH, COMTE DE (1785-1870)
• JOSEPH, FATHER (FRANCOIS LECLERC DU TREMBLAY) (1577-1638)

JOSEPH

See also:

• CLEMENT JOSEPH GARNIER (1813–1881)
• GARNIER, GERMAIN, MARQUIS (1754-1821)
• GARNIER, JEAN LOUIS CHARLES (1825-1898)
• GARNIER, MARIE JOSEPH FRANCOIS [FRANCIS] (1839–1873)
• GARNIER, ROBERT (c. 1545–c.1600)

GARNIER (1813–1881)  , French economist, was born at Beuil (Alpes maritimes) on the 3rd of October 1813 . Coming to Paris he studied at the 1 cole de Commerce, of which he eventually became secretary and finally a professor . In 1842 he founded with Gilbert-Urbain Guillaumin (1801–1864) the Societe d'Economie politique, becoming its secretary, a post which he held till his death; and in 1846 he organized the Association pour la Liberte des Echanges . He also helped to establish and edited for many years the Journal des economistes and the Annuaire de l'economie politique . Of the school of laissez faire, he was engaged during his whole life in the advancement of the science of political economy, and in the improvement of French commercial education . In 1873 he became a member of the Institute, and in 1876 a senator for the department in which he was born . He died at Paris on the 25th of September 1881 . Of his writings, the following are the more important: Traite d'economie politique (1845), Richard Cobden et la Ligue (1846), Traite des finances (1862), and Principes du population (1857) .