Edmond Malinvaud †91 (1923 - 2015)

was a French economist. He was the first president of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences.

Trained at the Ecole Polytechnique and at the Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Administration Economique (ENSAE) in Paris, Malinvaud was, like Gérard Debreu, a student of Maurice Allais. In 1950, Malinvaud left Allais to join the Cowles Commission in the United States. At Cowles, Malinvaud produced work in many directions. His famous article, "Capital Accumulation and the Efficient Allocation of Resources" (1953), provided an intertemporal theory of capital for general equilibrium theory and introduced the concept of dynamic efficiency. He became director of the ENSAE (1962–1966), director of the forecast department of French Treasury (1972–1974), director of the INSEE (1974–1987) and Professor at the Collège de France (1988–1993).