Robert Marjolin
| Robert Marjolin | |
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| European Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs | |
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In office 7 January 1958 – 30 June 1967 |
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| President | Walter Hallstein |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | Raymond Barre |
| 1st Secretary-General of the OEEC | |
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In office 1948–1955 |
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| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | René Sergent |
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| Born |
27 July 1911 Paris, France |
| Died | 15 April 1986 (aged 74) Paris, France |
| Political party | French Section of the Workers' International |
| Alma mater |
Practical School of Advanced Studies University of Paris Yale University |
Robert Marjolin (27 July 1911 – 15 April 1986) was a French economist and politician involved in the formation of the European Economic Community.
Robert Majolin was born in Paris, the son of an upholsterer. He left school at the age of 14 to begin work but took evening and correspondence courses at the Sorbonne. A 1931 scholarship from the Rockefeller Foundation enabled him to study sociology and economics at Yale University, which he completed in 1934. He also received a postgraduate doctorate in jurisprudence in 1936. From 1938 he worked as a chief assistant to Charles Rist at the Institute of Economics in Paris. His research at this time as well as his later political work was strongly affected by the New Deal programs of American President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Marjolin was particularly concerned with production and price history as well as monetary policy.
After the June 1940 French surrender to Germany during the Second World War, Marjolin became an economic advisor to the De Gaulle Government-in-exile in Great Britain. Before the final phase of the war he had already sketched plans for the reconstruction of France and the rest of Europe. In 1943 he represented the Government-in-exile in Washington as director of a purchasing mission. He rejected attempts by the American economy to win itself a prominent position in this mission. While in America he met the artist Dorothy Smith, who would later become his wife.
After the war Marjolin became the first director of the foreign trade department in the French Ministry of Economic Affairs and then junior minister for the reconstruction of France. In this role he initiated the economic development of France for the following decades. In contrast with Ludwig Erhard of Germany, Marjolin implemented a strong state control of the economy. This contrast defined the relationship between the French and German economic policies for the remainder of the 20th century.
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