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)