Marcel Boiteux

French economist, mathematician, and senior civil service member (1922–2023)

Marcel Boiteux (French pronunciation: [maʁsɛl bwatø]; 9 May 1922 – 6 September 2023) was a French economist, mathematician, and senior civil service member. He was the "architect of the French nuclear program" that created 61 nuclear reactors and kept the French electricity sector less carbon-intensive than other European countries.2

From Wikipedia’s article on Marcel Boiteux (this version), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Born May 9, 1922, died Sep 6, 2023.1

About

Boiteux joined Électricité de France (EDF) in 1949 as a student of Maurice 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 at marginal 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.

From Wikipedia’s article on Marcel Boiteux, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.2

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