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Maurice Allais
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Maurice Allais

Scientist · born May 31, 1911 · died 2010

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Maurice Félix Charles Allais 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 and Paul Samuelson, to neoclassical synthesis.

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  1. ~77Received the Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel1988

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