The origin of this work is to be found in the cyclostyled course on
'The optimal allocation of resources in the firm and in the Nation'
taught by Mr Boiteux at the Centre d'Etudes des Programmes
Economiques (C. E. P. E. ), Paris from 1957 to 1960. Of course,
several successive later rewritings and a great many additions have
profoundly altered the initial version: starting from a remarkably
clear and concise exposition of eco nomic theory, we have ended
with a book that is several hundred pages long. It is not at all
certain that Mr Boiteux would recognise this intellec tual
sponsorship. Nor is it certain that the gain in information
justifies such an increase in size. However that may be, the
initial plan has survived. Without Mr Boiteux this book would never
have been undertaken: it is a pleasant duty for us respectfully to
acknowledge our debt to him here. Microeconomic analysis, that is
to say that analysis which results from the study of the behaviour
and activities of individual decision-units, was for a long time
the main concern of the neo-classicists. Quite recently the
introduction of macroeconomic theory, dealing with aggregate quan
tities, seemed to relegate it to second place. But this is not
where it belongs: we tend to agree with Mr Raymond Barre that there
are "two different scales of analysis that complement rather than
contrast with one another.""
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