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Gérard Debreu
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French economist and mathematician (1921–2004)
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Vinony catalogs Gérard Debreu in its Nobel Prize in Economics collection (99 entries). It also appears in American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
Within Vinony's link graph, Gérard Debreu is referenced by 356 other articles, and connects out to Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, Kenneth Arrow and utility.
Vinony files it under 1921 births, 2004 deaths and 20th-century American economists.
Its subject is documented across 49 Wikipedia language editions.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 5
Top works
- General equilibrium theory
- Economics essays
- Theory of Value (Cowles Foundation Monograph)
- Mathematical economics
- Theory of value
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1921-07-04 ) 4 July 1921, Calais , France
- Died
- 31 December 2004 (2004-12-31) (aged 83), Paris , France
- Alma mater
- École Normale Supérieure , University of Paris
- Influences
- Léon Walras , Henri Cartan , Maurice Allais , Bourbaki
- Discipline
- Mathematical economics
- School or tradition
- Walrasian economics
- Institutions
- University of California, Berkeley , University of Chicago
- Doctoral students
- Graciela Chichilnisky , Beth E. Allen , Xavier Vives , Ishac Diwan
- Notable ideas
- General equilibrium , utility theory , topological methods , integration of set-valued correspondences
- Awards
- Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics (1983)
- Website
- Information at IDEAS / RePEc
via Wikipedia infobox
Nobel Prize
- The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel1983
“for having incorporated new analytical methods into economic theory and for his rigorous reformulation of the theory of general equilibrium”
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Calais
- Place of death
- Paris
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Position held
- president
- Educated at
- École Normale Supérieure
- Employer
- Yale University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Doctoral advisor
- Maurice Allais
- Field of work
- economics
- Image
- Debreu, Gérard (1921-2004).jpeg
- Residence
- United States
- Significant event
- funeral
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- Commons category
- Gérard Debreu
- date of birth
- 1921-07-04
- date of death
- 2004-12-31
- member of
- Econometric Society
- Erdős number
- 3
- name in native language
- Gerard Debreu
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- WikiProject Mathematics
- P8168
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- interested in
- economics
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Encyclopedic overview
Gérard Debreu ( French: [dəbʁø]; 4 July 1921 – 31 December 2004) was a French-born economist and mathematician. Best known as a professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley, where he began work in 1962, he won the 1983 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
Biography
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