Allais, Maurice

Allais, Maurice

▪ French economist
born May 31, 1911, Paris, France

      French economist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1988 for his development of principles to guide efficient pricing (price) and resource allocation (allocation of resources) in large monopolistic (monopoly and competition) enterprises.

      Allais studied economics at the École Polytechnique (Polytechnic School) and then at the École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris (National School of Mines in Paris). In 1937 he began working for the state-owned French mine administration, and in 1944 he became a professor at the École des Mines. From the mid-1940s on, he directed an economics research unit at the Centre de la Recherche Scientifique (National Centre for Scientific Research). In 1977 he was named an officer of the Legion of Honour.

      In his groundbreaking theoretical work, Allais sought to balance social benefits with economic efficiency in the pricing plans of state-owned monopolies (monopoly and competition) such as utility (public utility) companies. His principles caused state enterprises to consider ways that the pricing of goods or services could achieve results formerly achieved through regulation alone. His work proved particularly important in the decades following World War II, when the state-owned monopolies of Western Europe saw tremendous growth.

      Allais's work paralleled, and sometimes preceded, similar works by Sir John Hicks (Hicks, Sir John R.) and Paul Samuelson (Samuelson, Paul). According to Samuelson, “Had Allais's earliest writings been in English, a generation of economic theory would have taken a different course.”

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