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Maurice Allais

1911 - 2010

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Maurice Félix Charles Allais (French pronunciation: [mɔʁis feliks ʃaʁl alɛ]; 31 May 1911 – 9 October 2010) was a French physicist and economist, the 1988 winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences "for his pioneering contributions to the theory of markets and efficient utilization of resources", along with John Hicks (Value and Capital, 1939) and Paul Samuelson (The Foundations of Economic Analysis, 1947), to neoclassical synthesis. They formalize the self-regulation of markets, which Keynes refuted but reiterated some of Allais's ideas. Born in Paris, France, Allais attended the Lycée Lakanal, graduated from the École Polytechnique in Paris and studied at the École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris. His academic and other posts have included being Professor of Economics at the École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris (since 1944) and Director of its Economic Analysis Centre (since 1946). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Maurice Allais is the 35th most popular economist (up from 41st in 2019), the 567th most popular biography from France (up from 694th in 2019) and the 6th most popular French Economist.

Maurice Allais was a French economist, and he is most famous for his contributions to the field of economics. He is known for his paradox, which states that people will always prefer a certain amount of wealth now over the same amount of wealth in the future.

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Among economists, Maurice Allais ranks 35 out of 414. Before him are Amartya Sen, Gunnar Myrdal, Henri Fayol, Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, Elinor Ostrom, and Charles Cooley. After him are Eugen Böhm von Bawerk, Simon Kuznets, Carl Menger, Michael Porter, Barack Obama Sr., and Léon Walras.

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Among people born in 1911, Maurice Allais ranks 24. Before him are Milovan Đilas, William Howard Stein, Robert Taylor, Babe Didrikson Zaharias, William Stuart-Houston, and Melvin Calvin. After him are Jack Ruby, Polykarp Kusch, Marshall McLuhan, Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld, Tennessee Williams, and William Alfred Fowler. Among people deceased in 2010, Maurice Allais ranks 15. Before him are James Black, Gloria Stuart, Louise Bourgeois, Eddie Fisher, Benoit Mandelbrot, and Georges Charpak. After him are Éric Rohmer, Bobby Farrell, Alois Brunner, Claude Chabrol, Dennis Hopper, and Néstor Kirchner.

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In France

Among people born in France, Maurice Allais ranks 567 out of 6,770. Before him are Eugène Viollet-le-Duc (1814), Françoise Barré-Sinoussi (1947), Henri, Count of Chambord (1820), François Jacob (1920), Hilary of Poitiers (315), and Joseph de Maistre (1753). After him are Paul Langevin (1872), Princess Marie Bonaparte (1882), Theuderic I (485), Henry I, Duke of Guise (1550), Richard Clayderman (1953), and Marcel Marceau (1923).

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Among ECONOMISTS In France

Among economists born in France, Maurice Allais ranks 6. Before him are Frédéric Passy (1822), Vilfredo Pareto (1848), François Quesnay (1694), Jean-Baptiste Say (1767), and Anne Robert Jacques Turgot (1727). After him are Léon Walras (1834), Jacques Delors (1925), Dominique Strauss-Kahn (1949), Frédéric Bastiat (1801), Gérard Debreu (1921), and Jean-Claude Trichet (1942).

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