Paul Lambert (cooperator)

Paul Lambert
Born(1912-02-21)21 February 1912
Died17 September 1977(1977-09-17) (aged 65)
EducationUniversity of Liège
Occupations
  • Economist
  • Cooperator
  • Writer
Organization
    • FEBECOOP
    • CIRIEC International
Notable workLa Doctrine coopération (1959)
MovementCooperative movement

Paul Lambert (21 February 1912 – 17 September 1977) was a Belgian cooperator and professor of economics at the University of Liège.[1][2]

Lambert gained a doctorate in law from the University of Liège in 1935.[3] When Belgium was invaded in 1940 by Nazi Germany Lambert was conscripted and subsequently spent five years as a prisoner of war, which he recounted in his 1946 book Hommes perdus à l’Est ("Men Lost in the East"). He returned to academia after the war, later becoming chair of political economy at the law faculty of the University of Liège.[4]

In the 1950s Lambert was elected to the board of the Belgian Federation of Socialist Consumer Cooperatives (FEBECOOP) before becoming president of the federation.[1]

In 1957 Lambert succeeded Edgard Milhaud as president of the International Center of Research and Information on the Public, Social and Cooperative Economy (CIRIEC International).[3]

In 1959 he authored La Doctrine coopération, an influential overview and history of the ideas and the economics of the co-operative movement. The work was translated into English as Studies in the Social Philosophy of Co-operation (1963).

In 1962 he represented FEBECOOP on the central committee of the International Co-operative Alliance (ICA) and then in 1966 on the ICA's executive committee.[1]

He died on 17 September 1977 from cancer.[4]

Publications

  • — (1946). Hommes perdus à l'Est (in French). Brussels: Dessart.
  • — (1963). Studies in the Social Philosophy of Co-operation. Translated by Joseph Létargez. Co-operative Union.

References

  1. ^ a b c Shaffer, Jack (1999). Historical Dictionary of the Cooperative Movement. Internet Archive. Lanham, Md: The Scarecrow Press. p. 285. ISBN 978-0-8108-3666-2. OCLC 647857456.
  2. ^ CIRIEC: 50 Years in Belgium. From the Shores of Lake Geneva to the Banks of the Meuse – a Relocation Story, 1957–2007 (PDF). Liège: CIRIEC. 2007. p. 33. ISBN 978-2-9600129-2-7. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2022-01-24. Retrieved 2022-04-16.
  3. ^ a b Armstrong, Muriel (June 1973). "Honorary degree citation - Paul Lambert". Concordia University. Archived from the original on 26 November 2020. Retrieved 16 April 2022.
  4. ^ a b Gelard, Yvonne (September 1997). 1947–1997: 50 Years in the life of CIRIEC (PDF). Liège: CIRIEC International. pp. 16–26. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2022-01-22. Retrieved 2022-04-16.