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Charles Gide (1847–1932) was a leading French economist and historian of economic thought. He was a professor at the University of Bordeaux, at Montpellier, at Université de Paris and finally at Collège de France.

Contents 1 Academic Work 2 Social Activism 3 Works 4 References 4.1 External links 5 See also

A founder of the Revue d'économie politique in 1887, Gide was a proponent of the French historical approach to economics.^[1] Nevertheless, he was one of Leon Walras' few supporters, reflecting their shared social philosophy, their social activism, and their disdain for the "Manchester-style" economics of the journalistes.^[2] He later resisted the influence of Keynesian economics in France, as well.^[3] Gide's principal works include the monumental Principles of Political Economy and the influential History of Economic Doctrines.

The Charles Gide Association for the History of Economic Thought website, in French, is at http://www.charlesgide.fr . In keeping with Gide's views, the association is free of any exclusive doctrinal, theoretical or epistemological bias.

As a Protestant Christian Socialist, Gide was at the center of progressive politics in France, supporting the Université populaire movement in the aftermath of the Dreyfus Affair, the establishment of a School for Advanced Social Studies (1900) and the Union pour la Verite (League for Truth) that Paul Desjardins^[4] had created in 1892. Gide was interested in reform projects as well, such as the Alliance d’Hygiene Sociale (Social Hygiene League, created in 1905), and was the reporter of the social economy exhibition at the Paris World's Fair in 1900.^[5]

Gide was a tireless champion of the cooperative movement -- both agricultural and consumers' cooperatives -- in the first third of the 20th century. His book, Consumers' Co-operative Societies, which first appeared in French in 1904, and in English in 1921 is a classic in the field of Co-operative economics, in the tradition of Co-operative Federalism.

• Charles Gide - Écrits 1869-1886 (Charles Gide - Writings 1869-1886, Editions Harmattan/Committee for the edition of works of Charles Gide, Paris (1999)
• Principes d'economie politique, (1883) ISBN 9781412352512; tr. as Principles of Political Economy (1924); 26th ed., Paris, Librairie du Recueil Sirey (1931). On line ed. Marcelle Bergeron, École polyvalente Dominique-Racine de Chicoutimi, Ville de Saguenay.
• Économie sociale. Les institutions du progrès social au début du XXe siècle. Paris, Larose, 1905.
• Coopération et économie sociale 1886-1904 (1905). Patrice Devillers. éd. L’Harmattan

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• Charles Gide, "Economic Literature in France at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century", The Economic Journal, Vol. 17, No. 66 (Jun., 1907), pp. 192-212. doi:10.2307/2220664
• Cours d'economie politique (1909); Paris, Librairie de la Société du Recueil Sirey, 5e édition, refondue et augmentée (1919) On line ed. Marcelle Bergeron, École polyvalente Dominique-Racine de Chicoutimi, Province de Québec.
• Les Societes Cooperatives de Consomption, (1904); tr. as Consumers' Co-operative Societies (1921).
• A History of Economic Doctrines from the Time of the Physiocrats to the Present Day, with Charles Rist; tr. R. Richards. London, George P. Harrap (1915).
• Les Colonies Communistes et Co-Operatives (1930).

• Marc Penin. Charles Gide 1847-1932. L’esprit critique. Paris: l’Harmattan (1998). ISBN 2-7384-6072-0

• "Charles Gide", French Wikipedia
• Charles Gide Association for the History of Economic Thought
• New School History of Economic Thought website, French Historical School
• Consumers' Co-operative Societies

History of Economic Thought