L. Marlio’s scientific contributions

... One of its mem bers was the indus tri al ist Louis Marlio (1878Marlio ( -1952, who, after a few years in gov ern ment, became a busi ness leader in the alu mi num indus try (he ended up being chair man of the alu mi num com pany Péchiney) and one of the lead ers of Redressement français, a busi ness lobby pro mot ing indus trial mod ern i za tion and con cen tra tion; he also taught eco nom ics at the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées and the École Libre des Sciences Politiques (Morsel 1983). Unsurprisingly, his report on the global alu mi num car tel (in which Péchiney par tic i pated; see Bertilorenzi 2015) for the CEII was reassuring, as was his arti cle on the same topic in La Revue de Paris (Marlio 1930). ...

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A Paradoxical Convergence: French Economists and the Policy toward Cartels from the 1870s to the Eve of the Great Depression