LEROY-BEAULIEU

leroy-beaulieu, pierre paul (1843- ), french economist, brother of the preceding, was born at saumur on the 9th of december 1843, and educated in paris at the lycee bonaparte and the ecole de droit. he afterwards studied at bonn and berlin, and on his return to paris began to write for _le temps_, _revue nationale_ and _revue contemporaine_. in 1867 he won a prize offered by the academy of moral science with an essay entitled "l'influence de l'etat moral et intellectuel des populations ouvrieres sur le taux des salaires." in 1870 he gained three prizes for essays on "la colonization chez les peuples modernes," "l'administration en france et en angleterre," and "l'impot foncier et ses consequences economiques." in 1872 leroy-beaulieu became professor of finance at the newly-founded ecole libre des sciences politiques, and in 1880 he succeeded his father-in-law, michel chevalier, in the chair of political economy in the college de france. several of his works have made their mark beyond the borders of his own country. among these may be mentioned his _recherches economiques, historiques et statistiques sur les guerres contemporaines_, a series of studies published between 1863 and 1869, in which he calculated the loss of men and capital caused by the great european conflicts. other works by him are--_la question monnaie au dix-neuvieme siecle_ (1861), _le travail des femmes au dix-neuvieme siecle_ (1873), _traite de la science des finances_ (1877), _essai sur la repartition des richesses_ (1882), _l'algerie et la tunisie_ (1888), _precis d'economie politique_ (1888), and _l'etat moderne et ses fonctions_ (1889). he also founded in 1873 the _economiste francais_, on the model of the english _economist_. leroy-beaulieu may be regarded as the leading representative in france of orthodox political economy, and the most pronounced opponent of protectionist and collectivist doctrines.