Alfred Sauvy

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Alfred Sauvy

Alfred Sauvy (* 1898 in Villeneuve-de-la-Raho Département Pyrénées-Orientales ; † October 30, 1990 in Paris ) was a demographer , ethnologist and historian of French economic history .

Life

Born into a family of large landowners, Sauvy attended the École polytechnique after participating in the First World War in the 1920s and worked at the General Statistical Institute of France (SGF) after graduation. The student Maurice Halbwachs represented the theses of the French populationist Adolphe Landry . As advisor to the Paul Reynaud government , he reformed the 40-hour week introduced by Léon Blum in 1938 .

During the Nazi occupation of France, he was co-editor of the uncensored Bulletin Rouge-Brique .

In 1943 he published “Wealth and Population”, where he advocated a policy of populationism and against any protectionism of a corporate or trade union nature.

After the war, Charles de Gaulle wanted to make him Secretary General for Family and Population, but Sauvy opted for demographics. From 1945 to 1962 he was director of the INED (National Institute for Demographic Studies) and played a key role in its multidisciplinary expansion. At the same time he represented France on the UN population statistics commission.

Sauvy worked with Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber's L'Express and in 1954 became an advisor to the Pierre Mendès France government . In the French economy he was known for his déversement theory.

In 1962 Sauvy was appointed to the Collège de France and remained successful as a journalist well into old age. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1973 and of the American Philosophical Society since 1974 .

Until 1975 he was editor of the journal Population . For the wider public he planned a comprehensive four-page monthly, Population & Sociétés , which was realized in 1968 by his successor Jean Bourgeois-Pichat .

In 1988 he received the Hansian Goethe Prize .

"Third World"

In the contribution Three Worlds, a Planet for the “ L'Observateur ” on August 14, 1952, Sauvy used the term “ Third World ” for the first time , referring to Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès ' imprint Third Stand : “ ... because finally wants this third world, despised and exploited as a third estate, is also something ... ". At the end of his life, the author revoked this designation: “ The creator of the expression“ Third World ”was allowed to spurn it four decades ago. That makes one forget the growing diversity in this area today. It cannot go far to subsume the countries of sub-Saharan Africa and the “ panther states ” under one term. "

Works

  • 1943 La prévision économique - Paris: PUF, 128 p. (Que sais-je? N ° 112)
  • 1944 Richesse et population - Paris: Payot, 327 p.
  • 1949 Le pouvoir et l'opinion - Paris: Payot, 188 p.
  • 1952–1954 Théorie générale de la population (2 vol.) - Paris: PUF, 370 p. et 397 p.
  • 1956 La bureaucratie - Paris: PUF, 128 p. (Que sais-je? N ° 712)
  • 1957 La nature sociale - Paris: Librairie Armand Colin, 302 p.
  • 1958 De Malthus à Mao-Tsé-Toung - Paris: Denoël, 303 p.
  • 1959 La montée des jeunes - Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 264 p.
  • 1963 Malthus et les deux Marx - Paris: Denoël, 367 p.
  • 1965 Histoire économique de la France entre les deux guerres (3 vol.) - Paris: Fayard, 566 p., 627 p. and 467 p.
  • 1965 Mythologie de notre temps - Paris: Payot, 300 p.
  • 1970 La révolte des jeunes - Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 272 p.
  • 1973 Croissance zéro? - Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 331 p.
  • 1976 L'Économie du diable. Chômage et inflation - Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 247 p.
  • 1976 Eléments de demographie - Paris: PUF, 393 p. (Collection Thémis -Sciences sociales)
  • 1977 Coût et valeur de la vie humaine - Paris: Hermann, 210 p.
  • 1980 La machine et le chômage: les progrès techniques et l'emploi - Paris: Dunod / Bordas, 320 p.
  • 1984 Le travail noir et l'économie de demain - Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 304 p.
  • 1985 De la rumeur à l'histoire - Paris: Dunod, 304 p.
  • 1990 La terre et les hommes: le monde où il va, le monde d'où il vient - Paris: Economica, 187 p.

literature

Itemization and comments

  1. ^ Member History: Alfred L. Sauvy. American Philosophical Society, accessed December 23, 2018 .
  2. ^ Trois mondes, une planète
  3. ↑ " Car enfin ce Tiers Monde ignoré, exploité, méprisé comme le Tiers-État, veut, lui aussi, être quelque chose "
  4. ↑ Le Monde, 14/02/89

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personal data
SURNAME Sauvy, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French demographer, ethnologist and economic historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Villeneuve-de-la-Raho
DATE OF DEATH October 30, 1990
Place of death Paris