- Alfred Sauvy
Alfred Sauvy (1898-1990) was a demographer, anthropologist and historian of the French economy. Sauvy coined the term Third World ("Tiers Monde") in reference to the underdeveloped countries in an article published in the French magazine "
L'Observateur " onAugust 14 ,1952 . At the end of the article Sauvy said::"...car enfin, ce Tiers Monde ignoré, exploité, méprisé comme le Tiers Etat, veut lui aussi, être quelque chose"
:"...because at the end this ignored, exploited, scorned Third World like the Third Estate, wants to become something too".
In using the expression Third World here he was paraphrasing Sieyès's famous sentence about the
Third Estate during theFrench Revolution .Biography
Sauvy was born in
Villeneuve-de-la-Raho (Pyrénées-Orientales ) in 1898, and educated at theÉcole Polytechnique . After graduating, he worked at the Statistique Générale de France until 1937. He took part in theX-Crise Group . In 1938,Paul Reynaud called him to deal with economic issues until the war arrived in 1939. During theNazi occupation Sauvy helped in the publication of the "Bulletin Rouge-Brique", a non-censored pamphlet. After the war,Charles de Gaulle wanted to appoint him the General Secretary for Family and Population, but Sauvy decided to devote himself to demographics. He became director of theINED (National Institute of Demographic Studies) and simultaneously represented France at the commission of Statistics and Population of theUnited Nations . He wrote for "Le Monde " until his death in October 1990.Work
*. (Collection Thémis -Sciences sociales)
*1977 "Coût et valeur de la vie humaine" -- Paris : Hermann, 210 p.
*1980 "La machine et le chômage : les progrès techniques et l'emploi" -- Paris : Dunod/Bordas, 320 p.
*1984 "Le travail noir et l'économie de demain" -- Paris : Calmann-Lévy, 304 p.
*1985 "De la rumeur à l'histoire" -- Paris : Dunod, 304 p.
*1990 "La terre et les hommes : le monde où il va, le monde d'où il vient" -- Paris : Economica, 187 p.References
*Martínez Coll, Juan Carlos (2001): Grandes Economistas, [http://www.eumed.net/cursecon/economistas/]
February 22 ,2004
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