Laveleye

Laveleye, ÉMILE LOUIS VICTOR DE, political economist, was born at Bruges on 5th April 1822, studied at Paris and Ghent, and was appointed to the chair of Political Economy at Liège in 1864. His works include De la Propriété et de ses Formes Primitives (1874; Eng. trans. 1878); Lettres d'Italie (1880-84); Le Socialisme Contemporain (1881; 3d ed. 1886; Eng. trans. 1885); Éléments d'Économie Politique (1882); La Péninsule des Balkans (1886; curtailed trans. 1887); and works on 'rural economy' in the Netherlands, and on current topics of the day, such as education, luxury, the gold question, and democracy. He contributed to the Revue des Deux Mondes and some of the English reviews. He was made a baron just before his death, 2d January 1892. See Life by Count Goblet d'Alviella (1892).