Born in Limoges on April 25 1923, married, two children. Died on March 7 2015.
Education
- École Polytechnique alumnus
Administrative career
- 1946-1987 : Administrator, then Inspector General of INSEE
- 1962-1966 : Director, École Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Administration Économique
- 1972-1974 : Director of Forecasting at the Ministry of the Economy and Finance
- 1974-1987 : Director General of INSEE
Academic career
- 1950-1951 : Visiting fellow at the Cowles Commission for Research in Economics, University of Chicago
- 1957-1993 : Director of Studies at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
- 1961-1967 : Visiting professor at the University of California (Berkeley)
- 1969-1972 : Associate Professor, Université Paris-I
- Since 1984 : Member of the Comité Académique des Applications de la Science
- 1987-1993 : Professor at the Collège de France, chair Economic analysis
Awards and honors
- Honorary doctorate from the Universities of Leuven, Basel, Helsinki, Geneva, Lausanne, Montreal, Rome (La Sapienza), Frankfurt and Milan (Cattolica), Lisbon (Nova), Athens, Santiago de Compostela and Bonn
- 1958 : Bourdin Gold Medal (Société de Statistique de Paris)
- 1968 : CNRS Silver Medal
- 1970 : Prix Léon Faucher from the 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 Claus Recktenwald Prize in Economics (Nuremberg)
- 1997 : Grand-Croix de l'Ordre National du Mérite
- Commandeur des ordres de la Légion d'Honneur (1986), des Palmes académiques (1989), du Lion (Senegal, 1975), de l'Ordre National de Côte d'Ivoire (1987) and de lapos
- 1989 : Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
