Markets, Risk and Money

Most of the writings of Maurice Allais, 1988 Nobel Laureate in Economics have only been published in French. Thus to date, economists, management scientists and operations researchers have been severely restricted in gaining access to his work.
Markets, Risk and Money presents, for the first time in English, Allais' unconventional views on economic competition, the significance of free markets and overlapping generations, risk psychology, central banking, taxation systems, monetary dynamics and reform. The volume provides a consistent vision of our society and offers readers an evaluation of the impact of Allais' work on our present body of knowledge.
Markets, Risk and Money contains contributions from a number of distinguished European and American scholars including Bertrand Munier, Thierry Montbrial, J. Lesourne, Claude Ponsard, Edmond Malinvaud, André Babeau, Marcel Boiteux, Lola L. Lopes, Mark J. Machina, James B. Ramsey, Xavier Freixas, B. Roy and D. Bouyssou, Werner Leinfellner and Jean-Jacques Durand.
A biographical sketch and complete bibliography of the author are also included.

Inhalt

Introduction; B.R. Munier. 1. Fifty Years of Maurice Allais' Economic Writings: Seeds for Renewal in Contemporary Economic Thought; B.R. Munier. 2. Maurice Allais, Belatedly Recognized Genius; T. de Montbrial. 3. Self-Organizing Markets; J. Lesourne. 4. A Theory of Spatial General Equilibrium in a Fuzzy Economy; C. Ponsard. 5. Maurice Allais, Unrecognized Pioneer of Overlapping Generations Models; E. Malinvaud. 6. Some Possible Uses of Households Assets in the National Economy, with reference to American Households; A. Babeau. 7. Should we get Rid of Economic Calculus? M. Boiteux.