François Allisson

Even if the very idea of a Lausanne School seems spurious (2), I have worked on several individual members or the so-called Lausanne School, like Winiarski (1), Samsonoff (5), and Bortkiewicz (6). I have also worked on the reception of Léon Walras’s ideas in Russia (7, 8), and on the very recent legacy of the Lausanne School (3, 4). I co-organised an exhibition on Walras (9). With some further works, I could one day envisage of writing a peripheral history of the Lausanne School.

1. François Allisson, Thomas Mueller, “From Walras’s Physics Envy To Winiarski’s Mécanique Sociale”, History of Economic Ideas, XXVI(2): 103-123, 2018.
2. Roberto Baranzini, François Allisson, “Lausanne School”, in Gilbert Faccarello and Heinz D. Kurz (eds), Handbook on the History of Economic Analysis, Volume II. Schools of Thought in Economics, chap. 19: 281-294. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2016. (web)
3. Roberto Baranzini, François Allisson (editors), Economics and Other Branches — In the Shade of the Oak Tree. Essays in Honour of Pascal Bridel. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2014. 554 pages. (details)
4. Roberto Baranzini, François Allisson, “Introduction, in Roberto Baranzini, François Allisson (eds), Economics and Other Branches — In the Shade of the Oak Tree. Essays in Honour of Pascal Bridel, chapter 1: 1-5. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2014.
5. François Allisson, “Samsonoff on Rent Theory: Or, Yet Another Member of the Lausanne School?”, in Roberto Baranzini, François Allisson (eds), Economics and Other Branches — In the Shade of the Oak Tree. Essays in Honour of Pascal Bridel, chapter 8: 113-122. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2014. (web)
6. François Allisson, Danila E. Raskov, “Из переписки В.И. Борткевича с Л. Вальрасом: страницы истории Лозаннской школы”, Вестник С.-Петербургского университета (Серия 5), 1: 72-87, 2012. (PDF)
7. François Allisson, “Reception of Walras’ theory of exchange and theory of production in Russia”, The History of Economic Thought, 51(1): 19-35, 2009. (PDF)
8. François Allisson, “Les premiers lecteurs de Walras en Russie (1890-1919)”, in Études d’économie walrassienne, Les Cahiers OMI, Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, HS n°6: 57-75, 2008. Contains the translations from Russian to French of Shaposhnikov, Nikolay, “Walras”, Granat Dictionary, 1912 (original | translation); and of Anonymous, “Walras. Elements d’économie politique pure”, Russian Thought, 1891 (original | translation).
9. François Allisson, Laurie Breban, Exhibition “Palimpsestes walrassiens”, on an original idea from Roberto Baranzini, Archives Léon Walras, Centre Walras-Pareto, University of Lausanne, September 2006.