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