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Mon, 21 Oct 2019 11:20:16 +0200
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Hello

There are so many biographies of economists that one is embarrassed 
either to mention those of celebrities (Smith/Keynes/Marx/Schumpeter) or 
to mention those of long forgotten economists.

Let me mention a biography of a French historian of economic thought :

  Marc Pénin Charles Gide 1847-1932 L'esprit critique L'Harmattan Paris 1997

Marc founded the Association Charles Gide pour l'étude de la pensée 
économique (the French society for the history of economics)

I mention Gide's biography for it own sake but also because it was 
published as a part of a project of collected works. Such projects 
usually include one or several biographical notices that are "book 
length"  (I think to Walras, or JB Say in this context).

best

AA

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