I find the initial project bizarre: as Alain Alcouffe has just remarked, for each of the stars (who are tens if not  hundreds) there are tens (in some cases perhaps  hundreds: think of Marx ) think of JS Mill, Turgot, and all the others. Then for literally hundreds of minors there are one or two each: for instance almost all the Physiocrats have at least one (not to mention AUTO biographies), and people like James Mill McCulloch Bagehot Wicksteed and so on. The whole amounts to an unmanageable amount and would frankly be meaningless I dare say. Sorry for being frank.
Giancarlo de Vivo

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> Il giorno 21 ott 2019, alle ore 14:12, Alain Alcouffe <[log in to unmask]> ha scritto:
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> Hello
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> 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.
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> Let me mention a biography of a French historian of economic thought :
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>  Marc Pénin Charles Gide 1847-1932 L'esprit critique L'Harmattan Paris 1997
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> Marc founded the Association Charles Gide pour l'étude de la pensée économique (the French society for the history of economics)
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> 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).
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> best
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> AA
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