Michel Balinski was an applied mathematician, mathematical economist and operations research analyst. American, educated in the United States, he lived and worked primarily in the United States and France. He was known for his work in optimization (combinatorial, linear, nonlinear), convex polyhedra, stable matching, and the theory and practice of electoral systems, jury decision, and social choice. He was author or co-author of over a hundred scientific articles in addition to three books. Founding Editor-in-Chief of the journal Mathematical Programming (in 1971), he was one of the founders of the Mathematical Optimization Society in 1970 and President of that society from1986 to 1989. An INFORMS Fellow, he was awarded INFORMS’s Lanchester Prize (1965) and John von Neumann Theory Prize (2013), the American Political Science Association’s George H. Hallett Award (2008), and the Mathematical Association of America’s Lester R. Ford Award (1975 and 2009).
Experience
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2000–2019Directeur de recherche de classe exceptionnelle (émérite), C.N.R.S. and Ecole Polytechnique
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1982–1999Directeur de recherche de classe exceptionnelle, C.N.R.S. and Ecole Polytechnique
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1982–1990Leading Professor of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, and of Economics, Stony Brook University
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1978–1980Professor of Organization and Management and of Administrative Sciences, Yale University
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1975–1977Chairman, System and Decision Sciences, I.I.A.S.A. - International Institute for Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria
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1965–1977Professor of Mathematics, Graduate School and University Center, C.U.N.Y.
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1963–1965Associate Professor of Economics, University of Pennsylvania
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1960–1963Research Associate and Lecturer, Mathematics, Princeton University
Education
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1959Princeton University, Ph.D. Mathematics
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1956M.I.T., M.S. Economics
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1954Williams College, B.A. Mathematics
Publications
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2014Judge: Don't vote! (with Rida Laraki), Operations Research 62 483-511
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2014What should 'majority decision' mean? (with R. Laraki). In Jon Elster and Stéphanie Novak (eds.), Majority Decisions, Cambridge University Press
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2013How best to rank wines (with Rida Laraki) , In, Wine Economics: Quantitative Studies and Empirical Applications. London: Palgrave. 149-172.
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2013Jugement majoritaire versus vote majoritaire (via les présidentielles 2011-2012) (with Rida Laraki), Revue Française d'Economie XXXVII 11-44
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2012Ne votez pas, jugez! (with Rida Laraki), Pour la science avril 22-28
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2010Majority Judgment: Measuring, Ranking, and Electing (co-authored with Rida Laraki), M.I.T. Press
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2009Projets électoraux : le droit rencontre les mathématiques, Recueil Daloz No. 3 183-186
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2008Fair majority voting (or how to eliminate gerrymandering), American Mathematical Monthly 115 97-113
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2007A theory of measuring, electing and ranking (with R. Laraki), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 104 8720-8725
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2005What is just ?, American Mathematical Monthly 112 502-511
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2004Le suffrage universel inachevé, Editions Belin
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2001Fair Representation: Meeting the Ideal of One Man, One Vote, 2nd edition (co-authored with H. Peyton Young), Brookings Institution Press
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1999Mexico's 1997 apportionment defies its electoral law (with V. Ramirez), Electoral Studies 18 117-124
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1983Apportioning the United States House of Representatives (with H. P. Young), Interfaces 13 35-43
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1982Fair Representation: Meeting the Ideal of One Man, One Vote (co-authored with H. Peyton Young), Yale University Press
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1980The Webster method of apportionment (with H. P. Young), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 77 1-4
Honours
2013 John von Neumann Theory Prize awarded by INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences)
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