Orders of merit
Only the highest ranks are mentioned
1949 > Officer of the (French) Order of Academic Palms
1962 > Knight of the (French) Order of National Economy
1998 > Grand Cross of the (French) National Order of Merit
2010 > Grand Cross of the (French) National Order of the Legion of Honour
Scientific awards and distinctions
1933 > Laplace Prize and Rivot Prize of the (French) Academy of Sciences for his graduation ranking (first place) from the École Polytechnique
1954 > Charles Dupin Prize of the (French] Academy of Moral Sciences for his 1943 work À la recherche d’une discipline économique [In Search of an Economic Discipline]
1958 > The Lanchester Prize of the John Hopkins University and the Operations Research Society of America for the outstanding paper on operations research published in 1957 Method of appraising economic prospects of mining exploration over large territories – Algerian Sahara case study
1959 > Joseph Dutens Prize of the French Academy of Moral and Political Sciences for his 1953 work La gestion des houillères nationalisées et la théorie économique [The management of nationalized coal-mines and economic theory]
1959 > Galabert Prize of the French Astronautical Society for his research into gravity and the motion of the paraconic pendulum.
1959 > Laureate of the “Gravity Research Foundation”, USA, for his 1959 paper New theoretical and experimental research work on gravity
1960 > Grand Prix of the Atlantic Community awarded by the Association Française pour la Communauté Atlantique for his 1959 work L’Europe unie, route de la prospérité [A united Europe – the highroad to prosperity]
1968 > Grand Prix André Arnoux awarded by the Association pour la Liberté Economique et le Progrès Social, for the whole of his work
1970 > Gold Medal of the Société d’Encouragement pour l’Industrie Nationale, for the whole of his work
1978 > Gold Medal of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) for the whole of his work
1983 > Prix Robert Blanché of the (French) Academy of Moral and Political Sciences for his 1982 paper Fréquence, probabilité et hasard [Frequency, probability and chance]
1984 > Grand Prix Zerilli Marimo of the (French) Academy of Moral and Political Sciences for the whole of his work
1987 > Special prize awarded by the Jury on the occasion of the creation of the Dupuit de Lesseps Prize for the whole of his work on the economy of transport infrastructures.
1988 > Nobel memorial prize in economics
Academic distinctions and awards
1964 > Doctor honoris causa of the University of Groningen
1976 > Honorary Member of the American Economic Association
1989 > Gold medal of the University of Paris X-Nanterre
1989 > Associate member of the US National Academy of Sciences
1989 > Grand Vermeil Medal of the City of Paris
1989 > Grand Gold Medal of the City of Nice
1990 > Member of the (French) Academy of Moral and Political Sciences
1990 > Grand Gold Medal of the City of Nancy
1990 > Gold Medal of the Étoile Civique
1991 > Associate member of the (Italian) Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
1992 > Doctor honoris causa of the University of Mons
1992 > Doctor honoris causa of the American University of Paris
1993 > Diplome of honour of the Paris École des Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC)
1993 > Doctor honoris causa of the University of Lisbon
1999 > Associate member of the Russian Academy of Sciences