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A Short Biography of Maurice Allais

Author Name:

Maurice Allais

Born As:

Maurice Félix Charles Allais

Other Names:

Born:

31 May 1911

Died:

09 Oct 2010




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Scientist and Economist                          
Responsible for early work in behavioural economics, which in the US is generally attributed to Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky                                              
                                              
Laureate of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics - 1988

Professor of Economics at the École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris since 1944 
Director of its Economic Analysis Centre since 1946. In Doctor-Engineer University of Paris, Faculty of Science - 1949
Teaching positions at various institutions, including the University of Paris X-Nanterre, and the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva.                                              
Not to be confused with the Allais paradox in economics, which is occasionally referred to as Allais effect.

Performed experiments between 1952 and 1960 in the field of gravitation, special relativity and electromagnetism, and discovered the Allais effect.

The Allais effect is a claimed anomalous precession of the plane of oscillation of a pendulum during a solar eclipse. It has been speculated to be unexplained by standard physical models of gravitation, but recent mainstream physics publications tend rather to posit conventional explanations for the reported observations.

Criticized the Maastricht Treaty for its excessive emphasis on free trade - 1992

Expressed reservations on the single European currency - 1992

Expressed reservations concerning the European Constitution - 2005.