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Charles Bettelheim
French historian and economist
1913 – 2006aged 92
A French Marxian economist and historian who founded the Center for the Study of Modes of Industrialization at the EHESS and served as an economic advisor to newly independent governments during decolonization. Le Monde in 1972 called him one of the most visible Marxists in the capitalist world, and his influence extended through France's New Left to intellectual circles in Spain, Italy, Latin America and India.