Biography

Born in Lyon on December 19, 1903. Died in 1987.

Education and professional career

  • Secondary studies with the Marist Fathers (Lyon)
  • 1926: University lecturer
  • 1927: Lecturer
  • 1928: Agrégé
  • 1928-1937: Professor of Political Economy at the University (Lyon)
  • 1937-1955: Professor, University of Paris
  • 1946-1952: Professor, Institut d'études politiques (Paris)
  • 1944: Founder and Chairman of the Institut de science économique appliquée (I.S.E.A.), now the Institut de sciences mathématiques et économiques appliquées
  • 1955: Director of Studies at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes
  • 1955-1976: Professor at the Collège de France, chair of analysis of economic and social facts
  • 1960-1969: Director of the Institute for Economic and Social Studies and Development
  • 1960: Member of the Economic and Social Council, France
  • 1961: Founder of the Dakar Institute of Economics.
  • 1945: Mission for the French government: to study methods of calculating national income in Great Britain (with Pierre Uri and Henri Bartoli)
  • Member of the Executive Committee of theInternational Association for Research in Income and Wealth
  • 1946: Member of the International Statistical Institute

Academies

  • Associate member of the British Academy. Foreign member of the Accademia di Lincei, Roma
  • Associate member of the Académie royale des Sciences et des Lettres (Brussels)
  • Foreign member of the Royal Academy of Economic Sciences (Barcelona)

Awards and honors

  • Commander of the Légion d'Honneur
  • Grand Cross of the National Order of Merit
  • Croix de guerre 1939-1940
  • Commander of the Hellenic Order of the Greek Republic
  • Grand Officer of the Aztec Order
  • Officer of the Order of the Crown (Belgium)
  • Commander of the Order of the Italian Republic
  • Commander of the Order of Saint Gregory the Great
  • Grand Officer of the Order of Senegal
  • Honorary doctorate: Liège, Frankfurt am Main, Barcelona, Bucharest
  • Doctor honoris causa or professor honoris causa: Santiago (Chile), Lima (Peru), Corboda (Argentina), Montevido (Uruguay), Sao Paulo (Brazil)