Pierre Émile Levasseur, 1828-1911

 

Émile Levasseur was the grand scion of the French Historical School.  A classical liberal, he held a prestigious perch at the influential Collège de France, where he taught history, geography as well as economics.  His monumental histories of the French working class and his numerous studies on agriculture and land value throughout history make him certainly one of the leading economic historians of the 19th Century.   Suspicious of theoretical economic "science", Levasseur was one of the principal critics of Leon Walras and the Lausanne School (cf.1898). 

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