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Marcel Boiteux | |
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| Born | (1922-05-09)9 May 1922 |
| Died | 6 September 2023(2023-09-06) (aged 101) |
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Marcel Boiteux (French pronunciation:[maʁsɛlbwatø]; 9 May 1922 – 6 September 2023) was a French economist, mathematician, and senior civil service member. He was the "architect of theFrench nuclear program" that created 61 nuclear reactors and kept the French electricity sector less carbon-intensive than other European countries.[1]
Boiteux joinedÉlectricité de France (EDF) in 1949 as a student ofMaurice Allais and remained there for the rest of his career. In 1959, Marcel Boiteux became the President of the Econometric Society. From 1967 through 1987, he was the director of EDF. He theorized and implemented the price of electricity atmarginal cost, and was one of the architects of France's nuclear industry development.
His journey illuminates a social environment (that of scientists and senior civil services), a research process (marginal cost), a large company and its strategy, public sector career and power mechanisms, State-public-company relations, and decision-making processes on important issues such as nuclear policy.[2]
Marcel Boiteux was born inNiort on 9 May 1922. He graduated from theEcole Normale in 1942 and received his mathematics aggregation in 1946. In 1947, he also graduated, in the economics section, from the Institute of Political Studies in Paris.[3]
His professional career began in 1946 when he entered theNational Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), under the responsibility ofMaurice Allais and havingGérard Debreu as a colleague.
Boiteux joined EDF on 1 April 1949 as an engineer in the sales department on Allais' recommendation.
Boiteuxturned 100 on 9 May 2022,[4] and died on 6 September 2023, at the age of 101.[5]
On 14 December 1992, he was elected to the chair left vacant by Émile James' death in theAcademy of Moral and Political Sciences.[3]
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