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Gérard Duménil

French economist

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 28, 2026
Entity authorityQ16298890 ↗
Source-derived summary

Gérard Duménil (born 12 October 1942) is a French political economist. He is a former Research Director at the French National Centre for Scientific Research.

Publications

Gerard Duménil (1980). De la valeur aux prix de production (in French). Paris.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

Gerard Duménil (Winter 1983). "Beyond the Transformation Riddle: A Labor Theory of Value". Science & Society. 47 (4): 427–450. JSTOR 40402521.

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“Gérard Duménil” enters the record as french economist. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Gérard, Duménil and French can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1942, 1980, 1983—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1942-10-12. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Gérard, Duménil and French.
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The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 28, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16298890. VIAF identifies the subject as 34542072. The Library of Congress control number is n82040871. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1942, 1980 and 1983.

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This entry incorporates text from “Gérard Duménil” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.