Robert Leroux is a sociology professor born in 1964, at St-Jérôme (Québec). He holds a postdoctoral degree from the C.N.R.S.

Centre national de la recherche scientifique

The National Center of Scientific Research is the largest governmental research organization in France and the largest fundamental science agency in Europe....

 (Centre national de la recherche scientifique, France), a doctoral degree in Sociology from the Université Laval

Université Laval

Laval University is the oldest centre of education in Canada and was the first institution in North America to offer higher education in French...

 (Canada), a master’s degree in Sociology from the Université de Montréal

Université de Montréal

The Université de Montréal is a public francophone research university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It comprises thirteen faculties, more than sixty departments and two affiliated schools: the École Polytechnique and HEC Montréal...

 (Canada) and a bachelor’s degree in History from the Université de Montréal

Université de Montréal

The Université de Montréal is a public francophone research university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It comprises thirteen faculties, more than sixty departments and two affiliated schools: the École Polytechnique and HEC Montréal...

 (Canada).

Career

After having lectured at Université Laval, Université de Montréal and University of Alberta

University of Alberta

The University of Alberta is a public research university located in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Founded in 1908 by Alexander Cameron Rutherford, the first premier of Alberta and Henry Marshall Tory, its first president, it is widely recognized as one of the best universities in Canada...

, Robert Leroux became an assistant professor, then an associate professor and he was ultimately named a full professor at the University of Ottawa

University of Ottawa

The University of Ottawa is a bilingual, research-intensive, non-denominational, international university in Ottawa, Ontario. It is one of the oldest universities in Canada. It was originally established as the College of Bytown in 1848 by the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate...

, where he is currently teaching.

Ideas

Robert Leroux is interested by epistemology, the history of social sciences and liberal thought. The French version of his book “Political Economy and Liberalism: The Economic Contribution of Frédéric Bastiat” was rewarded with the "Prix Charles Dupin" by the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques of Paris, Economics Section, in 2008. The English translation will be published in 2011 at Routledge

Routledge

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. He also published the first book in French entirely devoted to the Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises

Ludwig von Mises

Ludwig Heinrich Edler von Mises was an Austrian economist, philosopher, and classical liberal who had a significant influence on the modern Libertarian movement and the "Austrian School" of economic thought.-Biography:-Early life:...

in 2009. In most of his works, he wants to show that social sciences can achieve a level of scientific rigor that compares to natural sciences.

Published books

• Ludwig von Mises, vie, œuvres, concepts (Paris: Ellipses, Paris, 106 p., 2009)

• Lire Bastiat, Science sociale et libéralisme (Paris: Hermann, 237 p. 2008); English translation: Political Economy and Liberalism: The Economic Contribution of Frédéric Bastiat (Routledge, Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Economics, 256 p.

• Édouard Montpetit : Réflexions sur la question nationale (Montréal: Bibliothèque québécoise, 2005).

• Cournot sociologue (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 200 p., 2004)

• Y a-t-il encore une sociologie ? Raymond Boudon with Robert Leroux, (Paris: Odile Jacob, 250 p., 2003)

• Histoire et sociologie en France (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 269 p., 1998)