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Charles Gide
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| Born | 29 June 1847 |
| Died | 12 March 1932 |
| Nationality | French |
| Field | Theory of social economy History of economic thought |
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Historical school of economics |
Charles Gide (French: [ʒid]; 1847–1932) was an important French economist and a historian who studied how economic ideas changed over time. He was a professor at several universities, including the University of Bordeaux, Montpellier, Université de Paris, and Collège de France. His nephew was the famous author André Gide.
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Charles Gide's Work as a Professor
Charles Gide helped start a journal called Revue d'économie politique in 1887. He was a supporter of the French historical school of economics. This group believed that economics should be studied by looking at history and how societies developed.
Gide also supported another economist named Léon Walras. They both believed in helping society and disliked the "Manchester-style" economics. This style focused mainly on individual profit and less on social well-being.
Helping Others: Charles Gide's Social Work
In the early 1880s, Gide worked with Édouard de Boyve and Auguste Marie Fabre. These three men created a French idea about cooperation, known as the École de Nîmes. This idea focused on people working together for common good.
The first national meeting for French cooperative societies happened in Paris in 1885. A journal called l'Émancipation was started at this meeting. Gide, de Boyve, and Fabre all wrote for this journal.
Gide was also active in a movement called social Protestantism. This group believed that Christian faith should lead to social action and helping those in need. He was involved in progressive politics in France. After the Dreyfus Affair, a big political scandal, he supported the idea of "people's universities" (université populaire). These schools offered education to everyone, not just those who could afford it.
He also helped create the School for Advanced Social Studies in 1899. He was one of the first teachers at the École supérieure de journalisme de Paris, a school for journalism.
Gide supported the "Union for Truth," a group that stood up for Alfred Dreyfus. Dreyfus was a Jewish army officer wrongly accused during the Dreyfus Affair. Gide was also interested in projects like the "Alliance of Social Hygiene," which aimed to improve public health. He reported on social economy at the Paris World's Fair in 1900.
Champion of Cooperation
Charles Gide was a strong supporter of the cooperative idea. This means people working together to own and run businesses, sharing the profits and benefits. He supported both agricultural cooperatives, where farmers work together, and consumers' cooperatives, where people buy goods together.
His book, Consumers' Co-operative Societies, was first published in French in 1904. It was later translated into English in 1921. This book is a very important text in the study of co-operative economics.
Books by Charles Gide
- Charles Gide – Écrits 1869–1886 (Charles Gide – Writings 1869–1886), published in 1999.
- Principes d'economie politique (Principles of Political Economy), first published in 1883.
- Économie sociale. Les institutions du progrès social au début du XXe siècle. (Social Economy. Institutions of Social Progress at the Beginning of the 20th Century.), published in 1905.
- Coopération et économie sociale 1886–1904 (Cooperation and Social Economy 1886–1904), published in 1905.
- "Economic Literature in France at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century", an article in The Economic Journal, 1907.
- Cours d'economie politique (Course on Political Economy), first published in 1909.
- Les Societes Cooperatives de Consomption (Consumers' Co-operative Societies), first published in 1904.
- A History of Economic Doctrines from the Time of the Physiocrats to the Present Day, written with Charles Rist, published in 1915.
- Les Colonies Communistes et Co-Operatives (Communist and Co-Operative Colonies), published in 1930.
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