Robert Marjolin
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Robert Marjolin | |
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Secretary-General of the OEEC | |
In office 1948–1955 | |
Preceded by | Position established |
Succeeded by | René Sergent |
Personal details | |
Born | Paris, France | 27 July 1911
Died | 15 April 1986 Paris, France | (aged 74)
Political party | French Section of the Workers' International |
Alma mater | Practical School of Advanced Studies University of Paris Yale University |
Robert Marjolin (27 July 1911 – 15 April 1986) was a French economist and politician involved in the formation of the
Early life and education
Robert Majolin was born in Paris, the son of an upholsterer. He left school at the age of 14 to begin work but took evening and correspondence courses at the Sorbonne. A 1931 scholarship from the Rockefeller Foundation enabled him to study sociology and economics at Yale University, which he completed in 1934. He also received a postgraduate doctorate in jurisprudence in 1936. From 1938 he worked as a chief assistant to Charles Rist at the Institute of Economics in Paris. His research at this time, as well as his later political work, was strongly affected by the New Deal programs of American President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Marjolin was particularly concerned with production and price history as well as monetary policy.
World War II and De Gaulle administrations
After the June 1940
After the war Marjolin became the first director of the foreign trade department in the French Ministry of Economic Affairs and then
The Marshall Plan and the OEEC
Due to his ministerial responsibilities, Marjolin was particularly involved with the
Towards the end of 1954 Marjolin surprisingly resigned from his OEEC position stating that he wished to become "an international civil servant". For a short time he was a member of the staff of the socialist minister of foreign affaires
Inaugural European Commission member
In 1955 he led the French delegation in negotiations on the formation of the
In 1958 he was appointed one of the two French
Robert Marjolin died in 1986, aged 74, leaving behind a son and a daughter.
References
- Glenn Fowler (19 April 1986). "ROBERT MARJOLIN, ECONOMIST AND COMMON MARKET OFFICIAL". The New York Times Company. Retrieved 3 February 2017.
Further reading
- Hagen Schulz-Forberg (2019) Crisis and continuity: Robert Marjolin, transnational policy-making and neoliberalism, 1930s–70s, European Review of History: Revue européenne d'histoire, 26:4, 679–702