Clément Juglar

Clément Juglar (15 October 1819 – 28 February 1905) was a French doctor and statistician.

Clément Juglar
Born(1819-10-15)15 October 1819
Paris, France
Died28 February 1905(1905-02-28) (aged 85)
Paris, France
NationalityFrance
OccupationDoctor, statistician
Known forIdea of business cycles

Juglar cycles

He was one of the first to develop an economic theory of business cycles.[1][2] He identified the fixed investment cycle of six to ten years that is now associated with his name. Within the Juglar cycle one can observe oscillations of investments into fixed capital and not just changes in the level of employment of the fixed capital (and respective changes in inventories), as is observed with respect to Kitchin cycles.

Juglar's impact

Juglar's publications led to other business cycle theories by later economists such as Joseph Schumpeter.

Publications of Clément Juglar

See also

References

  1. Des Crises commerciales et leur retour periodique en France, en Angleterre, et aux Etats-Unis. Paris: Guillaumin, 1862.
  2. The New Encyclopædia Britannica: Macropaedia 1998 "The first authority to explore economic cycles as periodically recurring phenomena was probably a French physician, Clément Juglar, in 1860."


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