ALLAIS (Maurice).
Les fondements comptables de la macro-économique. Les équations comptables entre quantités globales et leurs applications.
A major association copy, presented from one Nobel Laureate to another, inscribed by the author to the Cambridge economist Sir Richard Stone in black ink to the half title ‘À Monsieur le Professeur Stone Ce petit essai vers la synthèse avec toutes mes amitiés Maurice Allais’ and with Stone’s ownership inscription to the front cover.
The recipient, Sir Richard Stone, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Science for ‘having made fundamental contributions to the development of systems of national accounts and hence greatly improved the basis for empirical analysis’; meanwhile, Maurice Allais was awarded the 1988 Prize in Economic Sciences ‘for his pioneering contributions to the theory of markets and efficient utilization of resources’. Paul Samuelson subsequently proclaimed that ‘Had Allais’ earliest writings been in English, a generation of economic theory would have taken a different course’.
