Maurice Allais's Birth Card: The Ace of Clubs

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Maurice Félix Charles Allais (31 May 1911 – 9 October 2010) 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 (Value and Capital, 1939) and Paul Samuelson (The Foundations of Economic Analysis, 1947), to neoclassical synthesis. The birth-card coordinate for May 31 is the Ace of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1988 Economic Sciences prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1988 The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel — for his pioneering contributions to the theory of markets and efficient utilization of resources

The Ace of Clubs coordinate

Maurice Allais's birthday maps to the Ace of Clubs (The Creative Pioneer). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about a Nobel Prize and not a verdict on Maurice Allais. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You start a new idea while it is still usable, and you let it meet the world unfinished.

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Maurice Allais in the public record

They formalize the self-regulation of markets, which Keynes refuted but reiterated some of Allais's ideas. Born in Paris, France, Allais attended the Lycée Lakanal, graduated from the École Polytechnique in Paris and studied at the École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris. His academic and other posts have included being Professor of Economics at the École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris (since 1944) and Director of its Economic Analysis Centre (since 1946). In 1949, he received the title of doctor-engineer from the University of Paris, Faculty of Science. He also held teaching positions at various institutions, including at the university of Paris X–Nanterre. His first works oriented him towards the sciences of the concrete and the experiments of fundamental physics, on which he will also publish numerous works, notably on pendular oscillations and the laws of gravitation. It's after a trip in 1933 to the United States during the Great Depression, that he decides to make the economy. Allais died at his home in Saint-Cloud, near Paris, at the age of 99.

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Where the record meets the Ace of Clubs

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Original thinking and idea generation

His academic and other posts have included being Professor of Economics at the École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris (since 1944) and Director of its Economic Analysis Centre (since 1946).

Paired on the mind and communication — the domain ♣ governs in this system. Markers in the record: academic, professor.

Also on the record

1. Allais considered Léon Walras, Wilfredo Pareto, and Irving Fisher to be his primary influences.
2. He was reluctant to write in or translate his work into English, and many of his major contributions became known to the dominant community only when they were independently rediscovered or popularized by English-speaking economists.
3. At the same time, he claimed Keynes's liberalism and declared himself in favor of an important public sector.
4. Allais attended the inaugural meeting of the Mont Pelerin Society, but he was alone among the attendees to refuse to sign the statement of aims because of a disagreement over the extent of property rights.

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