# Adolphe Le Hardy de Beaulieu **URL:** --- Adolphe Le Hardy de Beaulieu (1814-1894) was a Belgian liberal politician, professor of Geology at the University of Mons, founder of the _Association Belge pour la Liberté Commerciale_ (the Belgian counterpart of the Anti-Corn Law League), and author/translator of several books on economics. He was inspired by classical liberal contemporaries and friends such as Jean-Baptiste Say, Gustave de Molinari, John Prince Smith, and Frédéric Bastiat. He was a regular journalist for de Molinari’s newspaper _Journal des Economists_.