Gérard Debreu
French economist and mathematician / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.[1]
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Gérard Debreu | |
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Born | (1921-07-04)4 July 1921 Calais, France |
Died | 31 December 2004(2004-12-31) (aged 83) Paris, France |
Nationality | French |
Academic career | |
Field | Mathematical economics |
Institution | University of California, Berkeley University of Chicago |
School or tradition | Walrasian economics |
Alma mater | École Normale Supérieure University of Paris |
Doctoral students | Graciela Chichilnisky Beth E. Allen Xavier Vives Ishac Diwan |
Influences | Léon Walras Henri Cartan Maurice Allais Bourbaki |
Contributions | General equilibrium utility theory topological methods integration of set-valued correspondences |
Awards | Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics (1983) |
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