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Maurice Allais

1911 - 2010

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Maurice Félix Charles Allais (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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Maurice Allais has received more than 185,807 page views. His biography is available in 60 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 58 in 2019). Maurice Allais is the 41st most popular economist (up from 52nd in 2019), the 694th most popular biography from France (up from 742nd in 2019) and the 9th 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

Among economists, Maurice Allais ranks 41 out of 414. Before him are Jan Tinbergen, Léon Walras, Wassily Leontief, Karl Polanyi, Frédéric Bastiat, and Robert Solow. After him are Ronald Coase, Friedrich List, Paul Krugman, Bernard Mandeville, Gary Becker, and Eugen Böhm von Bawerk.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Maurice Allais ranks 24. Before him are Melvin Calvin, Lê Đức Thọ, Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld, Robert Johnson, Tennessee Williams, and Klaus Fuchs. After him are Wilhelm Mohnke, Polykarp Kusch, Joseph Barbera, Jean Harlow, Jules Dassin, and Milovan Đilas. Among people deceased in 2010, Maurice Allais ranks 17. Before him are Claude Chabrol, Éric Rohmer, Tsutomu Yamaguchi, Juan Antonio Samaranch, Georges Charpak, and Ali Hassan al-Majid. After him are Vasily Smyslov, Marshall Warren Nirenberg, Zecharia Sitchin, Néstor Kirchner, Gennady Yanayev, and Francesco Cossiga.

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In France

Among people born in France, Maurice Allais ranks 694 out of 6,770. Before him are Louis Auguste Blanqui (1805), Alain Robbe-Grillet (1922), Anne of Foix-Candale (1484), Louise of Savoy (1476), Éliphas Lévi (1810), and Darius Milhaud (1892). After him are Jean-Henri Fabre (1823), Madame de La Fayette (1634), Raymond Aron (1905), François Jacob (1920), Antoine-Jean Gros (1771), and Pierre Loti (1850).

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Among ECONOMISTS In France

Among economists born in France, Maurice Allais ranks 9. Before him are François Quesnay (1694), Jean-Baptiste Say (1767), Jacques Delors (1925), Anne Robert Jacques Turgot (1727), Léon Walras (1834), and Frédéric Bastiat (1801). After him are Dominique Strauss-Kahn (1949), Jean-Claude Trichet (1942), Gérard Debreu (1921), Jean Tirole (1953), Pierre Guillaume Frédéric le Play (1806), and Jacques Claude Marie Vincent de Gournay (1712).

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