May he RIP

On 12/3/20, Rebeca Gomez Betancourt <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> It is with great sadness that the French community of historians of
> economic thought learned that Jérôme de Boyer des Roches had passed away
> after a long and tragic illness, on November 26, 2020.
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> Jérôme de Boyer des Roches was associate professor of economics at the
> University Paris Dauphine and researcher at LEDa-SDFi and at PHARE.
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> From 2005 to 2011, Jérôme was the director of the research center in the
> history of economic thought, PHARE. From 2002 to 2007 he organized the
> "Thornton" seminar with Sylvie Diatkine, where Ph.D. students and
> colleagues from French universities and abroad presented their articles.
> Jérôme was also, from 2011 to 2012, the director of the master's program
> "History of Economic Thought" at the University of Paris 1
> Panthéon-Sorbonne, a program where he had been teaching since its creation
> at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Fontenay/Saint-Cloud in 1995.
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> Jérôme was a historian of economic thought, specializing in monetary
> issues. His coverage of these issues ranged from Adam Smith and David
> Ricardo, through Thomas Tooke, to Knut Wicksell and Robert Triffin, just to
> name a few. His favorite topics and authors included John Law’s system,
> Henry Thornton's monetary thought, Marx and Hilferding on money, Ralph
> Hawtrey's credit theory, Keynes’s Treatise on Money, and Irving Fisher’s
> cycle theory. He published an outstanding book on the history of monetary
> thought, La pensée monétaire (Les Solos, 2003), numerous articles in
> leading academic journals (as European Journal of the History of Economic
> Thought, Cahiers d'économie politique, Journal of the History of Economic
> Thought and Revue Economique) and contributed to several collective works
> of reference (including the Handbook on the History of Economic Analysis,
> edited by G. Faccarello and H.D. Kurz, Edward Edgar, 2016 and the
> Encyclopedia Universalis). A list of Jérôme’s major publications, with
> links to the articles, can be found here: http://jdbdr.free.fr
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> Jérôme supervised six Ph.D. dissertations in the area of monetary history
> and financial theories: Rebeca Gomez Betancourt on E.W. Kemmerer and I.
> Fisher (2008), Nesrine Bentemessek (2009) on John Law and Sir James
> Steuart, Florencia Sember (2010) on R. Prebisch, Lucy Brillant (2015) on
> J.M. Keynes, Pierre-Hernan Rojas on R. Hawtrey, H.D. White and R. Triffin
> (2016) and Marion Dieudonné (2017) on T. Veblen.
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> He  participated actively in international conferences and in the
> activities of the Societies of historians of economics: ESHET, HES, JSHET,
> Association Charles Gide. Throughout his career, he brilliantly reconciled
> research, teaching, and supervision of doctoral students. His integrity and
> rigor, combining with modesty and simplicity, allowed for exchanges of
> great intellectual quality. He was an outstanding figure in our discipline,
> a highly respected colleague, appreciated by his students and colleagues.
> Without a doubt, he will continue to be a reference for those interested in
> the history of monetary thought.
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> I was fortunate to have met him when I arrived in France in 2000. He was my
> professor of monetary theory during my studies at Sorbonne University. His
> master's degree course in monetary thought fascinated me. He was very
> active in teaching, research and university administration. Very generous
> with his time and knowledge, he was one of the few people in the master's
> program who spoke Spanish and was always prepared to discuss a wide range
> of topics such as  Marxism, sexual diversity, wines, feminism and so on. As
> his first Ph.D. student, Jérôme  closely followed the writing of my thesis,
> he supported me and nourished my intellectual curiosity every day for
> years. His knowledge of the great authors allowed him to detect problems in
> contemporary theories, and thus to stimulate new lines of research. I had
> in-depth discussions with him on all my published articles. Some would not
> have been written without these discussions. I owe Jérôme an indelible
> debt. I cherished our friendship and had great admiration for him.
>
> As a tribute to him, his Ph.D. students jointly with the research center
> PHARE  would like to organize a workshop in 2021 to retrace his research
> path, to reread his articles as well as his book. With other colleagues, we
> are planning to translate his book and publish it in English as well as
> Spanish and continue using it in our courses at the university.
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> I would like to follow in his footsteps and become a thesis supervisor, a
> researcher, and such a generous person as Jérôme has been.
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> I will be forever grateful to him, for everything he taught me, for his
> humility and humbleness.
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> My thoughts are with his family and loved ones. I join them in mourning
> this terrible loss.
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>
> Rebeca Gomez Betancourt
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