Paul Lambert (21 February 1912 – 17 September 1977) was a Belgian cooperator and professor of economics at the

University of Liège The University of Liège (), or ULiège, is a major public university of the French Community of Belgium founded in 1817 and based in Liège, Wallonia, Belgium. Its official language is French (language), French. History The university was foun ...

. Lambert gained a doctorate in law from the University of Liège in 1935. When Belgium was invaded in 1940 by

Nazi Germany Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German Reich, German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a Totalit ...

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. In the 1950s Lambert was elected to the board of the Belgian Federation of Socialist Consumer Cooperatives (FEBECOOP) before becoming president of the federation. In 1957 Lambert succeeded

Edgard Milhaud Edgard Milhaud (14 April 1873 – 4 September 1964) was a French professor of economics, a militant socialist, and a promoter and theoretician of social economy. Life Isaac Edgard Milhaud was born on 14 April 1873 in Nîmes, Gard, France. His p ...

as president of the International Center of Research and Information on the Public, Social and Cooperative Economy (CIRIEC International). 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 The International Cooperative Alliance (ICA), established in 1895, is a non-governmental organization dedicated to uniting, representing, and supporting cooperatives around the world. It is the guardian of the internationally recognized definiti ...

(ICA) and then in 1966 on the ICA's executive committee. He died on 17 September 1977 from cancer.

Publications

* *

References

{{Authority control Belgian cooperative organizers 1912 births 1977 deaths Belgian economists Belgian prisoners of war in World War II