François Simiand
François Joseph Charles Simiand (1873 - 1935) is a sociologist, historian and economist French. He is regarded as one of the founders of the French sociological school.
The philosopher Henri Bergson considered Simiand, wire of teacher, as the pupil more the brilliance of his class to the Lycée Henri-Iv.
Simiand is a French economist anxious to apply to the study of the economic phenomena the principles of analysis of the social facts reported on the sociologist Emile Durkheim.
Its step develops the use of the statistical data and proclamation its desire constant to anchor the economic scene in the history. He particularly studied the business cycles over long period, whose origin of the cycles is for him monetary.
The increase in the quantity of currency (that it is because of new discoveries of money or gold mines, metal mode of standard, or manufacture of paper money and granting of credit) generates a phase of long growth, while the monetary restrictions generate a phase of deceleration prolonged of the economic activity.
Among the publications of François Simiand, positive method in economic scenes (1911): it exposes its methods of analysis of the economic phenomena to it; in the Wages, the social evolution and the growth (1932), it tries to establish a theory of the wages on the basis of statistical observation; in the economic fluctuations at long period and the world-wide crisis , it interprets the crisis of the Années 1930 in the light of its theory of the long cycles.
Simiand created a review Critical Notes , collaborated in Humanity and gave courses in popular universities. It contributed to a famous controversy the opponent to holding of the traditional history represented by Charles Seignobos.
As from 1900, it causes the creation of a library of social sciences to the ministry for the Trade, which will be later on gathered with the economic Information center (see the article central Bibliothèque of the National institute of the statistics and the economic studies) .
François Simiand was titular pulpit of history of work to the Collège de France between 1932 and 1935.
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