Background
CHEYSSON, Jean-Jacques Emile was born in 1836 in France.
CHEYSSON, Jean-Jacques Emile was born in 1836 in France.
Engineer-economist in the Ecole des Mines tradition laid down by Dupuit, whose greatest work is prob-
ably his published lecture of 1887, Statistique géométrique. This is a highly developed series of analytical arguments, touching on a wide range of topics. lieutenant overflows with original and striking ideas on statistical demand, revenue and cost curves, location and transporation rates, wages, profit maximisation, market supply areas, et cetera
Professor Political Economics, Ecole Libre des Sciences Politiques, Paris, 1882, Ecole des Mines, Paris, 1885.