Paul Bairoch

Paul Bairoch , born with Antwerp in 1930 and deceased with Geneva in 1999, is one of the large historians economists of the post-war period.

Biography

It began its university formation in 1956 in Paris at the Practical School of the High Studies. It obtained its doctorate in 1963 with the Universit3e libre de Bruxelles or he taught of 1965 to 1995. He was economic council with GATT in Geneva of 1967 to 1969, professor at the University Sir George Williams (Concordia) with Montreal of 1969 to 1971, and director of studies at the Practical School high Studies of 1971 to 1972. In 1972 it was named economic professor of Histoire at the university of Geneva or it taught until its retirement in 1995.

He was also invited professor with Harvard and the Collège de France, consulting with the ILO and Honorary doctor of the Polytechnic school Federal of Zurich (1983).

Contributions in economic History

Paul Bairoch particularly endeavoured to call into question certain generally accepted ideas in economy, in particular those which support that there exists a bond between the Libre-échange and socio-economic development. He tried to show this thesis by studying the protectionist policies with the the United States. He also sought to highlight which colonization did not make it possible the colonies to carry out their industrial takeoff but which it was also a weight for the metropolises, which benefitted from a growth rate less high than that of the noncolonizing countries.

He also highlighted the weak variation of existing economic level between the colonizing and colonized countries.

If it is especially known for its tests like the Third world in the dead end , its principal work and most innovative is doubtless its economic history of modern times (of the Industrial revolution at our days): Victories and vexations .

Principal works

Economic history

From Jericho to Mexico City. Cities and economy in the history , Gallimard, 1985 - ISBN 2070703630
Myths and paradoxes of the economic history , the Discovery, 1999 - ISBN 2707129267
Economics and World History: Myths and Paradoxes , University off Chicago Near, 1993 - ISBN 0226034631
Victories and vexations: economic and social history of the world of XVIe century at our days, in three volumes, Gallimard, 1997 - ISBN: 2070329763,2070329771 and 207032978X

Economy of the development

Industrial revolution and underdevelopment , Sheep, 1974
the Third world in the dead end , Gallimard, 1992 - ISBN 2070326608

External bonds

Banner page of the library Paul Bairoch

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