Ernest Labrousse

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Camille-Ernest Labrousse (1895–1988) was a French historian specializing in social and economic history.

Labrousse established a historical model centered on three nodes: economic, social and cultural, inventing the quantitative history sometimes now called "Cliometrics". He applied statistical methods and influenced a whole generation. Fernand Braudel said that if it were not for Labrousse "historians would never have set to work as willingly as they did on the study of wages and prices" [1].

Labrousse was not strictly a member of the Annales historians, too influenced by Marxist perconceptions to satisfy him, but he collaborated in their efforts to create a new human history. In 1948 he chaired a celebrated conference inquiring "How revolutions are born" focussing on French revolutions of 1789, 1830 and 1848, appl;ying to them his social, economic and political methodology.

[edit] Major works

  • Histoire économique et sociale de la France, Paris, Puf, 1979
  • Esquisse du mouvement des prix et des revenus au XVIIIe siècle (1933),
  • Crise de l’économie française à la veille de la Révolution (1944), which gained him a chair at the Sorbonne

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