Émile Mireaux (21 August 1885 – 27 December 1969) was a French economist, journalist, politician and literary historian.

From 1940 until his death, he held a chair in political economy, statistics and finance at the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques.

[1] His father was of Pyrenean origin, was an ordnance officer under General Georges Ernest Boulanger and was serving in the Mont-de-Marsan garrison.

After this Émile lived as a boarder at Tarbes and then as an officer's son at the Prytanée National Militaire in La Flèche, where he developed a love of rugby football.

[3] For obscure reasons he left the university and went to work for the Société d'études et d'informations économiques (Society for Economic Studies and Information) chaired by Jacques Bardoux.

[3] He was a member of the Redressement Français movement led by Ernest Mercier, and asserted that he was an ardent supporter of economic liberalism.

[3] On 18 May 1940 Mireaux was elected to the political economy, statistics and finance chair in the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques, which had been vacated by the death of Clément Colson.

[1] On 10 July 1940, he voted in favour of granting the cabinet presided by Marshal Philippe Pétain authority to draw up a new constitution, thereby effectively ending the French Third Republic and establishing Vichy France.

Mireaux and Chastenet decided to suspend publication on 29 November 1942 following the German invasion of the zone libre.

[1] Mireaux was tried by the High Court during the process of political cleansing of parliamentarians who voted the constitutional bill on 10 July 1940.