Gérard Debreu - Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel — 1983
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Gérard Debreu

Prize
Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel — 1983
for having incorporated new analytical methods into economic theory and for his rigorous reformulation of the theory of general equilibrium
Citizenship
FranceFranceUnited StatesUnited States
Languages
English
date of birth
7/4/1921
place of birth
Calais
date of death
12/31/2004
place of death
Paris
Lived
83 years

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occupation
  • university teacher
  • researcher
  • mathematician
  • economist
field of work
  • general equilibrium theory
  • economics
educated at
  • Stanford University
  • École Normale Supérieure
employer
  • University of California, Berkeley
  • Yale University
position held
  • president
    • start time: 1990
    • end time: 1991
member of
  • Econometric Society
    • start time: 1954
  • French Academy of Sciences
  • National Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1977
  • American Association for the Advancement of Science
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • American Philosophical Society
    • start time: 1984
doctoral student
  • Richard Russell Cornwall
  • Tatsuro Ichiishi
  • R. Bryce (Robert) Hool
  • Jean-Michel Grandmont
  • Marcus C. Berliant
  • Jean-Pascal Bénassy
  • Beth E. Allen
  • Xavier Vives i Torrents
  • Graciela Chichilnisky
  • Volker Böhm
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