Edgard Milhaud (14 April 1873 – 4 September 1964) was a French professor of economics, a militant socialist, and a promoter and theoretician of social economy.

He studied in Germany in 1896–99, inquiring into the workers' movement the basis for his book La démocratie socialiste allemande (1902).

[2] In the early 1920s, Albert Thomas and Edgard Milhaud proposed to develop expertise in the ILO on the links between social and economic problems.

As the delegate representing the French employers at the ILO, Robert Pinot despised the proposal, which he called "social control of the economy.

[2] On 20 June 1940, Edgard Milhaud, Adrien Tixier and Jean-Amédée Weber sent a telegram to Marshal Petain in protest against the request for an armistice, asking for the continuation of the war alongside the British.

[3] In 2010, CIRIEC started to award the €5,000 Edgard Milhaud Prize annually to young doctoral students.