Paul Lambert (cooperator)
Co-operator and economist (1912–1977)
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Paul Lambert (21 February 1912 – 17 September 1977) was a Belgian cooperator and professor of economics at the University of Liège.[1][2]
- Economist
- Cooperator
- Writer
Paul Lambert | |
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| Born | 21 February 1912 |
| Died | 17 September 1977 (aged 65) |
| Education | University of Liège |
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| Notable work | La Doctrine coopération (1959) |
| Movement | Cooperative movement |
Lambert gained a doctorate in law from the University of Liège in 1935.[3] When Belgium was invaded in 1940 by Nazi Germany Lambert was conscripted and subsequently spent five years as a prisoner of war, which he recounted in his 1946 book Hommes perdus à l’Est ("Men Lost in the East"). He returned to academia after the war, later becoming chair of political economy at the law faculty of the University of Liège.[4]
In the 1950s Lambert was elected to the board of the Belgian Federation of Socialist Consumer Cooperatives (FEBECOOP) before becoming president of the federation.[1]
In 1957 Lambert succeeded Edgard Milhaud as president of the International Center of Research and Information on the Public, Social and Cooperative Economy (CIRIEC International).[3]
In 1959 he authored La Doctrine coopération, an influential overview and history of the ideas and the economics of the co-operative movement. The work was translated into English as Studies in the Social Philosophy of Co-operation (1963).
In 1962 he represented FEBECOOP on the central committee of the International Co-operative Alliance (ICA) and then in 1966 on the ICA's executive committee.[1]
He died on 17 September 1977 from cancer.[4]
Publications
- — (1946). Hommes perdus à l'Est (in French). Brussels: Dessart.
- — (1963). Studies in the Social Philosophy of Co-operation. Translated by Joseph Létargez. Co-operative Union.