BLANQUI, JEROME ADOLPHE French economist, brother of L. A. Blanqui, the revolutionary, was born at Nice. He was a pupil of J. B. Say, whom he succeeded in the chair of political economy at the Conservatoire des Arts et Metiers in 1833. He was, from 183o to his death, head of the tcole de Commerce in Paris. Blanqui practically devoted the whole of his life to an examination of the condition of the working classes in different countries. His Histoire de l'economie politique en Europe, depuis les anciens jusqu'd nos jours (1838, 1842, and 1845), was translated into several languages.