Charles Brook Dupont-White

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Charles Brook Dupont-White [ dyˈpɔ̃ waɪt ] (born December 11, 1807 in Rouen , † December 10, 1878 in Paris ) was a French economist and publicist .

Life

After completing his university studies, Dupont-White devoted himself to studying economic issues in addition to his work as a lawyer (1836 to 1843) and later as Secretary General in the Ministry of Justice (1848 to 1870). Although he was a supporter of economic freedom, in many cases he showed himself inclined to intervention by the state, where others instruct the individual to help himself. Appointed a member of the Commission for Decentralization in 1870, Dupont-White soon retired into private life. He died in 1878.

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In addition to many articles in magazines, translations of English works such as Gouvernement représentatif and La liberté by John Stuart Mill , he wrote: Essai sur les relations du travail avec le capital (Par. 1846); L'individu et l'état (1856), a work on which above all its reputation is based; La liberté politique considéré dans ses rapports avec l'administration locale (1864); Étude sur le suffrage universel (1870); La centralization (3rd ed. 1876) and Mélanges philosophiques (1878).