ABSTRACT
The French economists examined in this chapter include only those Members of Parliament who published on the subject of economics. Based on this selection criterion, a list of forty-one figures has been drawn up, covering the period under consideration. While names of certain members of parliament who were not professional economists do appear on the list, for example the chartered engineer and mathematician Charles Dupin, the historian Adolphe Thiers and the philosopher Jules Simon, these remain exceptions. The overwhelming majority of the forty-one figures were professional economists. Their date of birth and death are cited in parentheses together with the first citation of their name, in order to highlight this information. The period examined begins on 25 February 1848, the date of the proclamation of the Second Republic, and terminates on 27 July 1929, the day of the resignation of Raymond Poincaré from his position as head of the government, an office he had held for three years.
