Louis Baudin

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Louis Baudin (born in Brussels in 1887 ; died in Paris in 1964 ) was a Belgian-French economist and writer who enjoyed an international reputation in the field of money and credit and the price economy. His writings on the Incas in Peru became classics .

life and work

Louis Baudin was born in Brussels in 1887 to French parents. He studied law and obtained his doctorate in Paris . During the First World War he was seriously injured, which resulted in several years of hospitalization. In 1922 he became a professor at the Law Faculty in Dijon . In 1937 he moved to the Sorbonne . He was also a professor at the École des Hautes Études Commerciales , a member of the Institut de France , President of the Association française de science politique and Vice-President of the Association Internationale de Science Économique . His research focus was economic and financial history, including the theories of the planned economy and elite research.

A stay in Ecuador and reports by Spanish chroniclers of the 16th and 17th centuries led to his research on the Inca state . He was the first to describe how the economy of the Inca Empire functioned according to fixed planned economy rules and which control systems were developed to comply with the rules, but did not see this economic structure as determined by the spatial conditions of the Andes .

His writings, for which he also evaluated the chronicle of Waman Puma de Ayala , which was only found in 1908, and other old image sources, also dealt with the extremely hierarchical or dualistic social structure, architecture, road construction, the military and the science and art of the Inca . They were included in famous book series such as ( La vie quotidienne , rde , Manesse Library of World History ) .

As a representative of liberal economic ideas and a member of the Mont Pèlerin Society , Baudin was personally an opponent of the planned economy and socialism.

Publications (selection)

  • La Législation fiscale espagnole (contributions directes et indirectes de l'État moins les douanes) , thèse pour le doctorat, 1910
  • La révolution de 1911–1912 en Equateur , Revue des études historiques. 1925
  • L'Empire socialiste des Inka , Universite de Paris, Travaux et Memoires de L'Institut D'Ethnologie, V. Institut d'Ethnologie, 1928
  • La Vie de François Pizarre , 1930
  • Qu'est-ce que le credit? L'essor du crédit au XIXe siècle. L'ébranlement du crédit au XXe siècle .. La crise actuelle , Aubier, Paris 1934
  • La Monnaie et la formation des prix , 1936
  • L'Utopie soviétique , 1937
  • La Monnaie. Ce que tout le monde devrait en savoir , Libr. De Médicis, 1938 (Lesproblemèmes contemporaines; 1).
  • La Réforme du crédit: deux conférences données au Conservatoire national des Arts et Métiers , 1938
  • Le Système non règlementé des relations économiques internationales, source de paix ou de guerre? , 1939
  • Le Mécanisme des prix: trois conférences données à l'Institut supérieur des sciences économiques et financières de Lisbonne , 1940
  • Le Corporatisme, Italie, Portugal, Allemagne, Espagne, France , Paris, Libraire generale de droit et de jurisprudence 1942
  • Études sur l'économie dirigée. I. L'Économie dirigée à la lumière de l'expérience américaine , Paris, Librairie générale de droit et de jurisprudence 1941, "Collection d'études économiques, sous la direction de Louis Baudin" vol. 11 1941
  • Études sur l'économie dirigée. II. La Consommation dirigée en France en matière d'alimentation , 1942
  • Essais sur le socialisme. I. Les Incas du Pérou , 1942 Partial online view (with a bibliography of his Latin American works)
  • Précis d'histoire des doctrines économiques, conforme au programme de la partie générale du diplôme d'études supérieures d'économie politique de la Faculté de droit de Paris , Les Editions Domat-Montchrestien, Paris 1942
  • Manuel d'économie politique , 2 vol., 1942–1944
  • Esquisse de l'économie française sous l'occupation allemande , 1945
  • Frédéric Le Play , 1806-1882. Textes choisis et préface par Louis Baudin , 1947 (ed.)
  • L'Aube d'un nouveau libéralisme , 1953
  • La vie quotidienne au temps des derniers Incas , Paris: Hachette 1955
    • German edition: This is how the Incas lived before the fall of the empire. Stuttgart. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1957; Revised edition: The life of the Inca. The Andean region on the eve of the Spanish conquest. ( Manesse Library of World History ) Zurich: Manesse-Verl., 1987
  • Frédéric Bastiat , 1962
  • Une théocratie socialiste: l'état jesuite du Paraguay. Paris: M.-T. Genin, 1962
  • The socialist state of the Inca. Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1956. rde
  • The theory of the elites. [Zurich]: [Society of Swiss Monthly Books], 1952
  • Crowd and democracy. Essays by Louis Baudin, Jean-Baptiste Duroselle a. a. Escort by Albert Hunold. Erlenbach-Zurich; Stuttgart: Rentsch 1957 (Economics studies for the Swiss Institute for International Research, Vol. 5)

literature

  • Ernesto Grassi : The Second Enlightenment: Encyclopedia Today / With lexical index to volume 1–75 and portrait photos of the authors of the rde with short biography. Reinbek: Rowohlt, 1958 ( rde 76/77) "Pictures of the authors"

Web links

References and footnotes

  1. ↑ Ernesto Grassi: The Second Enlightenment: Encyclopedia Today. Reinbek: Rowohlt, 1958 ( rde 76/77) "Pictures of the authors"
  2. ↑ Ernesto Grassi: The Second Enlightenment: Encyclopedia Today. Reinbek: Rowohlt, 1958 ( rde 76/77) "Pictures of the authors"
  3. ↑ For his Latin American work see z. B. the bibliography in Essais sur le socialisme. I. Les Incas du Pérou , 1942 ( partial online view )
personal data
SURNAME Baudin, Louis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian-French economist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Brussels
DATE OF DEATH 1964
Place of death Paris