CROISSANCES OPTIMALES DANS UN MODELE
MACROECONOMIOUE
E. (MALINVAUD
Institut National de la Statistique et des Etudes Economique:
Paris - France
ORAL PRESENTATION (*
I may be brief on the motivations for this paper after what
was sald by Professor Koopmans. Like him, I wanted to
understand better the logical problems raised by choices be-
tween intertemporal program and, in particular, to deal, as
rigorously as I could, with the case when the utility is defined
over an indefinite future. Moreover, I wanted to explore the
relations between various particular models, proposed by RAM-
SEY, TINBERGEN, RADNER and SRINIVASAN, all dealing with the
choice of optimal programs. but starting from different hypo-
theses.
In this oral presentation, I shall briefly survey the various
sections of mv paper.
After a short introduction in section 1, section 2 defines the
model. Like Professor Koopmans. I am dealing with a world
*) Le texte de la présentation orale est reproduit à titre de résumé en
langue anglaise du mémoire nresenté a nartir de la page aq.
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