Edmond Malinvaud

Gérard Debreu (left), Yves Balasko (center) and Edmond Malinvaud (right)

Edmond Camille Malinvaud (born April 25, 1923 in Limoges , † March 7, 2015 in Paris ) was a French economist .

Life

Edmond Malinvaud was born as the son of the lawyer Auguste Malinvaud and his wife Andrée, b. Ballet born. He attended the Gay Lussac High School in Limoges and the Lycée du Parc in Lyon . He then studied economics , mathematics and statistics in Paris at the École polytechnique (diploma 1946) and at the École nationale de la statistique et de l'administration économique (ENSAE) (diploma 1948). Then he went to the Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques (INSEE), whose general inspector he was from 1966 to 1974 and whose general director he was from 1974 to 1987. From 1950 to 1951 the Rockefeller Foundation made it possible for him to work on the Cowles Commission for Research in Economics at the University of Chicago . From 1957 to 1993 he was director of studies at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales and from 1962 to 1966 director of ENSAE. He was visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley in 1961 and 1967 and at the Sorbonne from 1969 to 1972 . From 1972 to 1974 he was director of the forecast department of the French Ministry of Economy and Finance . After leaving INSEE in 1987, he was Professor of Economic Analysis at the Collège de France from 1988 to 1993 .

Malinvaud has been married to Elisabeth Compagnon since September 13, 1952 and has daughters Cécile and Catherine.

Act

Malinvaud works “ in the field of mathematical and applied micro- and macro-theory, econometrics and statistics in connection with practical-political implementation in a leading position at the highest level. His pioneering achievements in the synthesis of Keynesianism and neoclassicism, the explanation of unemployment with rigid prices, the development of the imbalance theory and statistical-econometric estimation methods are just as noteworthy as his constant endeavor to apply his scientific knowledge to reality. "

Prices

• 1958 Gold Bourdin Medal of Honor (Société de statistique de Paris)
• 1968 Silver Medal ( Center national de la recherche scientifique )
• 1970 Léon Faucher Prize ( Académie des sciences morales et politiques )
• 1983 Georges Pompidou Prize (Haut comité de la langue française)
• 1992 Paolo Baffi International Prize in Economics (San Paolo, Torino)
• 1993 Grammaticakis Neumann Foundation Prize (Académie des sciences morales et politiques)
• 1995 Horst Recktenwald Prize

honors and awards

• Commander's Cross of the Ordre national du Lion (Senegal, 1975)
• Legion of Honor , Commandeur (1986)
• National Order of Ivory Coast (1987)
• Ordre des Palmes Académiques (1989)
• Federal Cross of Merit (April 28, 1989)
• Ordre national du Mérite (1993)
• Honorary doctorates
  • University of Basel
  • Université catholique de Louvain
  • Helsinki University
  • University of Geneva
  • University of Montreal
  • University of Lausanne
  • Sapienza University
  • Catholic University of the Sacred Heart , Milan
  • Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main
  • Universidade Nova de Lisboa
  • National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
  • University of Santiago de Compostela
  • University of Bonn
  • Bielefeld University

Memberships

• 1963 President of the Sociéte internationale d'économétrie
• In 1967 Malinvaud was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .
• 1971–1973 Vice-President and 1974 President of the Société de statistique de Paris
• 1972–1988 member of the General Council of the Banque de France
• 1974–1977 President of the Association internationale des sciences économiques
• 1979–1981 President of the Institut international de statistique
• 1984–1986 Vice-President and 1986–1987 President of the Association française de science économique
• 1988 President of the Association Économique Européenne
• 1994–2004 President of the Académie pontificale des sciences sociales
• 1969 foreign member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• 1973 foreign member of the British Academy
• 1976 Foreign Member of the Finnish Academy of Sciences
• 1977 foreign member of the National Academy of Sciences
• 1989 Foreign member of the Royal Academy of Sciences and Fine Arts of Belgium
• 1994 Corresponding member of the Académie des Sciences
• 2001 Académie des technologies

Works

Publications

Malinvaud published more than 300 articles including:

• Capital Accumulation and Efficient Allocation of Resources . In: Econometrica . Volume 21, April 1953, pp. 233-266.
• Aggregation problems in input-output models . In: T. Barna (Ed.): The Structural Interdependence of thw Economy . John Wiley, New York 1954, pp. 188-202.
• L'agrégation dans les modèles économiques . In: Cahiers du Seminaire d'Economitrie . No. 4, CNRS, Paris 1956, pp. 69-146 (English translation in: Ricerche Econimiche . Volume 47, 1993).
• Programs d'expansion et taux d'intérêt . In: Econometrica . Volume 27, April 1959, p. 215.
• Decentralized procedures for planning . In: E. Malinvaud and MOL Bacharach (eds.): Activity analysis in the theory of growth and planning . MacMillan, London 1967, pp. 170-208.
• Décisions en face de l'aléatoire et situation certaine approximativement équivalente . In: Cahiers du seminaire d'economitrie . No. 11, CNRS, Paris 1969, pp. 37-50.
• First-order certainty equivalence . In: Econometrica . Volume 37, October 1969, pp. 706-718.
• The consistency of nonlinear regression . In: The Annals of Mathematical Statistics . Volume 41, No. 3, June 1970, pp. 959-969.
• The allocation of individual risks in large markets . In: Journal of Econometric Theory . Volume 4, No. 2, April 1972, pp. 312-328.
• A planning approach to the public good problem . In: Swedish Journal of Economics . March 1971, pp. 96-112.
• Wages and unemployment . In: Economic Journal . Volume 92, March 1982, pp. 1-12, French version in: P. Michel and P.-Y. Henin (ed.): Croissance et accumulation en disequilibre , Economica, Paris 1982, pp. 287-302.
• La science économique aujourd'hui ' . In: Revue économique et sociale . January 1984
• Reflecting on the Theory of Capital and Growth . In: Oxford Economic Papers . Volume 38, 1986, pp. 367-385.
• Capital productif, incertitudes et profitabilite . In: Annales d'Economie et de Statistique . No. 5, January-March 1987.
• The Challenge of Macroeconomic Understanding . In: Quarterly Review. Banca Nazionale del Lavoro . No. 162, 1987, pp. 219-238.
• The ET Interview. Professor Edmond Malinvaud . In: Econometric Theory . Volume 3, 1987, pp. 273-295.
• Propos de circonstances sur les orientations de la discipline économique . In: Annales - Economies, sociétés, civilizations . No. 1, 1990, pp. 115-121.
• A medium term employment equilibrum . In: W. Barnett et al. (Ed.): Equilibrum Theory and Applications . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1991, pp. 319-337.

Books

• Initiation à la comptabilité nationale . Presses Universitaires de France, Paris 1957
• Méthodes statistiques de l'économétrie . Dunod, Paris 1964 (English as: Statistical Methods of Economics . North Holland, Amsterdam 1966)
• Leçons de théorie micro-économique . Dunod, Paris 1969 (English as: Lectures on Microeconomic Theory . North Holland, Amsterdam 1972)
• with Jean-Jacques Carré and Paul Dubois: La Croissance Française . Seuil, Paris 1972 (English as: French economic growth . Univ. Press [et al.], Stanford, California 1976)
• The Theory of Unemployment Reconsidered . Blackwell, Oxford 1977, ISBN 0-631-17350-1 (French as: Réexamen de la théorie du chômage . Calmann Lévy, Paris 1980, ISBN 2-7021-0369-3 )
• Profitability and unemployment . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1980, ISBN 0-521-22999-5
• Théorie Macroéconomique . Dunod, Paris 1981 and 1982, ISBN 2-04-011446-7 and ISBN 2-04-015401-9 (English as: Macroeconomic theory . Elsevier, Amsterdam [ inter alia] 1998-2000, ISBN 0-444-88497-1 )
• Essais on the theory of chômage . Calmann-Lévy, Paris 1983, ISBN 2-7021-1268-4
• Mass unemployment . Basil Biackwell, Oxford 1984, ISBN 0-631-13704-1
• Sur les statistics de l'emploi et du chômage . La Documentation Française, Paris 1986, ISBN 2-11-001693-0
• Voies de la recherche macroéconomique . Odile Jacob, Paris 1991, ISBN 2-7381-0113-5
• Equilibre général dans les économies de marché . Economica, Paris 1993, ISBN 2-7178-2430-8
• Diagnosing Unemployment . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1994, ISBN 0-521-44533-7
• The function “statistics et études économiques” in the services de l'État . Documentation Française, Paris 1997, ISBN 2-11-003793-8

literature

• Who's Who in France . 2006, ISBN 2-85784-046-2 , p. 1399
• Who's who in economics . 3rd edition, 1999, ISBN 1-85898-886-1 , pp. 725f.
• H. C. Recktenwald Prize for Political Economy. First award to Professor Dr. Drs. Hc Edmond C. Malinvaud on November 17, 1995 . Erlangen-Nuremberg University Library. Erlangen, [1996], ISBN 3-9804838-0-0
• Michel Beaud and Gilles Dostaler: Economic thought since Keynes. A History and Dictionary of Major Economists . Edward Elgar, Brookfield 1994, ISBN 1-85278-667-1 , pp. 332-334
• Mark Blaug: Great Economists since Keynes . 2nd edition, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham [u. a.] 1998, ISBN 1-85898-692-3 , pp. 180-182
• Paul Champsaur (Ed.): Essays in honor of Edmond Malinvaud . MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass. [u. a.], ISBN 0-262-03174-4 , especially Volume 3, p. 249 (short biography) and 250–257 (selected bibliography)

Web links

Commons : Edmond Malinvaud  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Biography on uni-erlangen.de
• Literature by and about Edmond Malinvaud in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ L'économiste Edmond Malinvaud est décédé .
2. ↑ from the reason for the award of the H. C. Recktenwald Prize for Economics. Printed in: H.-C.-Recktenwald-Preis für Nationalökonomie. First award to Professor Dr. Drs. Hc Edmond C. Malinvaud on November 17, 1995 . Erlangen-Nuremberg University Library . Erlangen, [1996], ISBN 3-9804838-0-0 .
3. ↑ Office of the Federal President
4. ^ American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Book of Members ( PDF ). Retrieved April 6, 2016