Maurice Block
Maurice Block (German: Moritz Block); 18 February 1816 – 9 January 1901) was a
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| Born | 18 February 1816 |
| Died | 9 January 1901 |
| Citizenship | German |
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Block was born in
Beginning in 1856, Block edited L'Annuaire de l'economie politique et de la statistique. He remained the editor until 1901.[1] Block, along with many French economists of his time, believed that economics was too complex of a subject to be amenable to mathematical techniques.[2]
He retired in 1862 and thenceforth wrote predominantly on the topics of agriculture, finance and public administration, turning to criticism of socialism in the 1890s. A prolific writer, he was published in a number of academic and professional magazines and journals of the time.[3] He continued to devote himself to statistical studies as well.[4]
He was elected a member of the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques in 1880. He died in Paris on 9 January 1901.[4]
His principal works are:[4]
- Dictionnaire de l'administration francaise (1856)
- Statistique de la France (1860)
- Dictionnaire general de la politique (1862)
- L'Europe politique et sociale (1869)
- Traité theorique et pratique de statistique (1878)
- Les Progres de l'economie politique depuis Adam Smith (1890)
- Die Bevolkerung des franzosischen Kaiserreichs (1861)
- Die Bevalkerung Spaniens and Portugals (1860)
- Die Machtstellung der europäischen Staaten (1862).
He wrote several books against socialism : Les théoriciens du socialisme en Allemagne (1872); Le socialisme moderne (1890). He is the author of the famous distinction between the three political lines : Orleanism, Legitimism and Bonapartism.[5] As Adolphe Franck and Michel Breal, he is one of those Jewish Scholars who attempted to remain neutral during the Dreyfus affair.[6]
References
- ISBN 978-0-945466-48-2. Retrieved 22 July 2012.
- ISBN 978-0-415-27603-0. Retrieved 22 July 2012.
- ISBN 113631301X, 9781136313011
- ^ a b c Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
- ^ Marc Crapez, Naissance de la gauche, éd. Michalon, Paris, 1998
- ^ Marc Crapez, L'Antisémitisme de gauche au 19è siècle, Berg International, Paris, 2002
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Block, Maurice". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
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