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- Author of several theoretical and applied economic studies, Allais’ work focused on the development of mathematical economics, especially in the fields of general equilibrium theory, capital theory, decision theory and monetary policy.
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Author of several theoretical and applied economic studies, Allais’ work focused on the development of mathematical economics, especially in the fields of general equilibrium theory, capital theory, decision theory and monetary policy.
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- Curriculum Vitae
- Modest Social Background
- A Brilliant Student Graduating as Valedictorian from The École Polytechnique
- A Career Chiefly Devoted to Higher Education and Research in Economics
- Two Leisure Pursuits : Physics and History
Maurice Allais was born 31st May 1911 in Paris into an unpretentious world of small shopkeepers. His parents owned a modest dairy at 83, rue Didot, in Paris’s 14th arrondissement. His father died of typhus in a prisoner of war camp in Germany during the first world war, when Maurice was just four. Throughout his life he was to remain deeply marked ...
Against this difficult family background we find him at the local state school in the rue d’Alésia in 1919, some three years behind his age group. The headmistress of this establishment won his undying gratitude by allowing him to skip some classes and thereby catch up. In October 1921 he began his secondary studies at the Lycée Lakanal in Sceaux w...
After the war he was prompt to specialize in teaching and research, which were to be the twin pillars of his career. Hence in 1944 he became Professor of Economic Analysis at Paris’s École Nationale Supérieure des Mines, where he continued to teach until 1988, and from October 1946 director of research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scienti...
Although Maurice Allais is best known as an economist, whose immense body of writings has been recognized by the Gold Medal of the CNRS (1978) and the Nobel Prize in Economics (1988), he was also deeply interested in physics and history, which he studied by way of diversion and to which he devoted a great deal of time. Physics was a real passion fo...
Oct 9, 2010 · Allais, whose father had died in a German prison camp during World War I, attended secondary school south of Paris in Sceaux. Though fascinated by history, he was pressured by his mathematics instructor to study engineering at the prestigious Ecole Polytechnique, receiving a masters degree in 1933.
Maurice Allais also studied very carefully the behaviour of the pendulum and in particular the influence of the anisotropy of its support: in particular he ensured that the two pendulums used in July 1958 had almost exactly the same characteristics.
AN OUTLINE OF MY MAIN CONTRIBUTIONS TO ECONOMIC SCIENCE. Nobel Lecture, December 9, 1988. by. MAURICE ALLAIS. Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines de Paris et Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - France. The Nobel Prize which has been awarded to me by the Royal Academy of Sciences of Sweden is a very great honour by which I am deeply ...
I n 1988 Maurice Allais became the first French citizen to receive the Nobel Prize in economics. He won it for his contribution to the understanding of market behavior and the efficient use of resources.
