Honours

Orders of merit

Only the highest ranks are mentioned

1949Officer 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