Claude Riveline

Claude Riveline (16 September 1936 – 9 December 2024) was a French economist and academic.^[1]

Claude Riveline
Born	(1936-09-16)16 September 1936 Paris, France
Died	9 December 2024(2024-12-09) (aged 88)
Education	École polytechnique Mines Paris – PSL
Occupation(s)	Economist, academic

Life and career

Born in Paris on 16 September 1936, Riveline graduated from the École polytechnique in 1956 and from the Mines Paris – PSL in 1961. He taught at the latter for his entire career, leading courses in organizational management to the Corps des mines.^[2]

He was an Officer of the Legion of Honour, Commander of the National Order of Merit, Combatant’s Cross and Commander of the Order of the Academic Palms.^[3] He conducted a significant amount of research on economic theory.^[4] He believed that the "cost of "goods" was arbitrary, and that the determination of the price of goods was entirely man-made.^[5]

Riveline was also involved in the French Jewish intellectual community as an author and participant in multiple conferences.^[6][7][8] In 1967, he joined the preparatory committee of the Colloque des intellectuels juifs de langue française and joined conferences in which Emmanuel Levinas gave Talmudic lessons.^[9]

Riveline died on 9 December 2024, at the age of 88.^[10]

Publications

• "L'argent suspect" (1988)
• "L'État en questions" (1989)
• "Le quant-à-soi aujourd'hui" (1991)
• Évaluation des coûts - éléments d'une théorie de la gestion (1995)
• Petit traité pour expliquer le judaïsme aux non-juifs (2000)
• Idées, tome I (2006)