Louis Marlio

Louis Marlio , born with Paris the February 3rd 1878 and died in Paris the November 26th 1952, economist, senior official and French industrialist.

Biography

Polytechnician, doctor in right, it is twice, between 1909 and 1913, principal private secretary of Alexandre Millerand, initially with the public Ministry of Labor, then with that of the Armies. After the First World War, it makes career in the industry of aluminum and directs or manages hydroelectric companies, in particular those of the Union for industry and electricity or Groups Draper (called also sometimes Groupe of Messine of the street name where was its seat).

Like Ernest Draper and Auguste Detoeuf, he is member of the French Rectification where he deals with the Commission of study of foreign policy. Very focused on the cartel combines, it makes publish by the economic and financial section of the Société of the Nations an headed document Études on the economic aspects of the various cartel combines and international , that it wrote with others. He is political professor of saving of 1919 with 1926 with the National school of the Highways Departments and in 1911 with 1927 with the Private school of political sciences. He is elected member of the Academy of Science morals and political in 1934. He is vice-president of the Committee of the international congress of the economic scenes in 1938. The same year, it publishes one entitled book the Fate of capitalism . He also plays a key function in the organization of the Colloque Walter Lippmann. Henri Morsel considers that “it joined, starting from 1937 - 1938, a vast family of economists and Anglo-Saxon leaders very attached to organized liberalism…”

During the Second world war, he refuses to belong to the five plenipotentiary ones of the armistice Council and is sent to the United States. The law of August 16th 1940 which creates the industrial Steering Committees and the dissolution of the trade unions, make it break definitively with the Régime of Vichy. In the United States, he works with the Brookings Institution. In 1944, it makes off appear a work entitled The Control Germany and Japan , writes in common with Harold Moulton, the president of this institution. After the second world war, it finds whereas France directs itself towards a model not “organized” but “interventionist”.

Principal publications

Studies on the economic aspects of the various cartel combines and international (1930)
the True Business of Panama (1932)
the Armistice of Versailles (1935)
Fate of capitalism (1938)
Dictatorship or freedom (1940)
the Revolution of yesterday, today and tomorrow (1943)
The Control off Germany and Japan (1944)
social Liberalism (Conference at the Political Company of Economy, 1946))
The Aluminum Trust (1947)

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