...Raphaël Fèvre; Thomas Michael Mueller Abstract This article aims to trace the hitherto little-known controversy involving Maurice Allais, François Divisia, Harold Hotelling, and Gérard Debreu in the immediate postwar years. The controversy turned on “dead loss,” a measure of the maximum value...

... , M. 1978 . Contributions à la science économique: vue d'ensemble, 1943–1978 . Paris: Centre d'Analyse Economique. Belloc , B. , and M. Moreaux 1987 . Allais, Maurice. In The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics , edited by J. Eatwell, M. Milgate, and P. Newman, 1 : 78 -79. New York...

.... Although his paper is potentially interesting, I lost the thread as he moved into discussions of quantum mechanics, Heisenberg’s matrixes, and wave-particle duality. Part I1 has four papers. Maurice Allais leads the reader through his work, re- formulating general equilbrium theory to include...

... instruments. 928 History of Political Economy 53:5 (2021) Hotelling s approach had a deep and multifaceted influence on the development of welfare economics. Most notably the French school of public economics (Maurice Allais, Marcel Boiteux, Francois Divisia, and Pierre Massé; see Kolm 2010) was deeply...

... is devoted to Maurice Allais, Daniel Ellsberg, and the paradoxes associated with their names. The Allais paradox and the Ellsberg para- dox are choice situations in which individuals systematically violate expected utility theory, and for reasons that cannot be easily discarded as irrational. 368 Book...

...- temporal resource allocation. This was appreciated at the time as one strand of a wide variety of growth models by Hahn and Matthews (1964: 888, see also part 3.6), but came to be absent of the recent textbooks. Being a student of Maurice Allais, very familiarized with Allais s utilitarian inter...

... was surprised to find no mention of the thorough article by Maurice Allais in the International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences. In sum, Warren Samuels has done a first-rate job of making Pareto’s contributions in sociology pertinent to economists interested in policy issues. Along...

...Robert W. Dimand Duke University Press 2004 Allais, Maurice. 1947 . Économie et intérêt . Paris: Imprimerie Nationale. Backus, David, William C. Brainard, Gary Smith, and James Tobin. 1980 . A Model of U.S. Financial and Nonfinancial Economic Behavior. Journal of Money, Credit...

... Uncertainty with Allais' Rejoinder , edited by Maurice Allais and Ole Hagen. Boston: Reidel. ____. 1991 . Cardinal Utility History, Empirical Findings, and Applications: An Overview. Theory and Decision 31 : 99 -140. Arrow, K. J. 1970 . Social Choice and Individual Values . 2nd ed. Edinburgh...

... of this old engineer-economist tradi- tion. The continuity within this tradition is particularly well discussed in a set of papers on the progressive refinements of marginal cost pricing from Jules Dupuit and Augustin Cournot down to Maurice Allais and Marcel Boiteux (including the less well known...

..., production is predominant. Although his paper is potentially interesting, I lost the thread as he moved into discussions of quantum mechanics, Heisenberg’s matrixes, and wave-particle duality. Part I1 has four papers. Maurice Allais leads the reader through his work, re- formulating general...

... Blaug, Peter Groenewegen, Samuel Hollander, and Terence Hutchison, and to two anonymous referees for helpful comments. Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 References Allais , Maurice 1992 . The General Theory of Surpluses as a Formalization of the Underlying Theoretical...

.... Cheysson, for example, developed a general pedagogic method that was “econo- metric” in all but its name. Etner demonstrates that this “other tradition” in French economics has persisted into the present century, reaching its highest point in the theoretical work of Maurice Allais...

... is Breton and Klotz’s failure to note any filiation, even by allusion, between Dupuit and the grand maître of French economics, Nobel laureate Maurice Allais—despite Allais’s (1997) public acknowl- edgment of Dupuit as a major stimulant to his own work. The whole peak- load, marginal-cost pricing...

... authority and police to enforce the chosen plan. Simplification and enforcement both impede freedom. But Massé also emphasizes some crucial elements, based on his own and his colleagues engineering work, that are absent from the solely the- oretical solution put forward by Maurice Allais and Gérard Debreu...

... . 1967 . “ Rôle de l’Image du Partenaire sur la Coopération en Situation de Jeu .” Psychologie Française 12 , no. 4 : 267 – 75 . Allais Maurice . 1955 . “ Observations sur la Théorie des Jeux .” In Travaux du Congrès des Economistes de Langue Française—1954 , 143 – 63 . Paris...

... able event brought my search to a close. Maurice Allais, whose À la Recherché d’une Discipline Economique had appeared in 1943, sent copies of his book to several class presidents at the Ecole Normale. Debreu could have easily rationalized his decision to enter economics by appealing...

.... Ahmad, Syed. 1991 . Capital in Economic Theory: Neo-Classical, Cambridge, and Chaos . Aldershot, U.K.: Elgar. Allais, Maurice. 1947 . Économie et intérêt . Paris: Imprimerie National. Arrow, Kenneth J., Hollis B. Chenery, B. S. Minhas, and Robert M. Solow. 1961 . Capital-Labor Substitution...

... and Mor- genstern’s axioms and the validity of EUT became the subject of an intense debate in which Friedman and Savage (1948, 1952), Jacob Marschak (1950, 1951), Paul Samuelson (1950, 1952), Kenneth Arrow (1951), Harry Markowitz (1952), Armen Alchian (1953), Robert Strotz (1953), Maurice Allais...

... analysis” (988). On the other hand, economic analysis developed after World War II outside the universities in two directions: the neomarginalist approach implemented in the grandes écoles and the CNRS by René Roy, François Divisia, Maurice Allais, and the latter’s pupils Gérard Debreu and Edmond...