Maurice Block

Maurice Block

Maurice Block , German Moritz Block (born February 18, 1816 in Berlin , † January 9, 1901 in Paris ) was a French statistician and economist of German origin.

Life

Maurice Block comes from a Jewish family and spent many years of his childhood and youth in Paris. He studied philosophy and political science in Paris and at the universities of Bonn and Gießen , as well as history and geography, and completed his studies with a doctorate at the University of Tübingen .

Block then went back to France and worked there as a teacher for some time. In March 1844 he joined the Ministry of Agriculture as a civil servant and in 1852 became the second chief of the Statistical Bureau . Ten years later, Block resigned from this office and from that time on devoted himself only to his own scientific and literary work.

In April 1880, Block was elected a member of the Institut de France to succeed Leoncé Guilhaud de Lavergne . Five years earlier, the institute had already awarded its Statistique de la France . He contributed significantly to the assertion of German science among the Romance peoples.

Fonts

As an author

• The charges de l'agriculture dans les divers pays de l'Europe . Paris 1850.
• L'Espagne en 1850 . 1851.
• The population of the French Empire . Gotha 1861.
• The population of Spain and Portugal . Gotha 1861.
• The power of the European states . Gotha 1862 (parallel edition in French)
• L'Europe politique et sociale . 1869; 2nd ed. 1892.
• Petit manuel d'économie pratique . 1871; 9th edition, 1880; Translated into eleven languages, German by Kaven, Kleines Handbuch der National-Ökonomie or Volkswirthschaftslehren , 5th edition, Aachen 1890.
• Les théoriciens du socialisme en Allemagne . 1872.
• Les communes et la liberté . 1876.
• The quintessence of catheter socialism . FA Herbig, Berlin 1878.
• Traité theorique et pratique de statistique . 1878; 2nd ed. 1886; German by Hans von Scheel , Handbook of Statistics , Leipzig 1879.
• Premiers principes de legislation pratique appliquée au commerce . 1883.
• Les progrès de la science économique depuis Adam Smith . 2 vols., Paris 1890; increased edition 1897.
• Les suites d'une grève . Paris 1891; German von Schwarz, A dispute and its consequences , Berlin 1891.
• The assurances ouvrières en Allemagne . 1895.

As editor

• Dictionnaire de l'administration française . 1856, 4th ed. 1898.
• Annuaire de l'administration française . 1858-1869.
• Statistique de la France comparée with the autres États de l'Europe . 2 vols., 1860; 2nd ed. 1875.
• Dictionnaire general de la politique . 2 vol., 1862–64, 2nd ed. 1874; Reprint 1884
• Annuaire de l'économie politique et de la statistique . Ed. 1856–64 together with Guillaumin, then alone.
• Petit dictionnaire politique et social . 1896.

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