Lemennicier was born on 15 October 1943 in
Paris. After a master's degree in econometrics, and as a student of professor
Pascal Salin, he obtained a doctorate in applied economics in 1971. He then received a state doctorate in economics in 1975, and an
agrégation in economics in 1987. Lecturer at
Paris Dauphine University as well as at
ESSEC Business School, he was a professor of economics at
Pantheon-Assas University and at the
University of Lille. He was a member of the jury for the first aggregation competition in economics in 2003 under the chairmanship of
Pascal Salin. The influences of Professor Lemennicier include economists such as
Friedrich Hayek,
Milton Friedman,
Ronald Coase,
James M. Buchanan,
Gary Becker,
Richard Allen Posner,
Ludwig von Mises and
Murray Rothbard and philosophers
Ayn Rand and
Robert Nozick. He helped his students rediscover the writings of
Frederic Bastiat, a French economist celebrated as a major economist in the United States but long forgotten in France, and initiated them to
public choice theory and to
economic analysis of law, fields often neglected in French universities. Lemennicier is also known for teaching his students to think critically when using economic and
econometric models and to analyse any specific ideology underpinning them. Foreseeing the negative impacts of implementing a
bureaucratic Europe, he is part of the economist manifesto in favour of the “no to the
Maastricht Treaty” . ==Works==