
Gérard Debreu
Gérard Debreu 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.
Background
- Born in
- Calais
- Educated at
- École Normale SupérieureStanford University
- Awards
- 🏆 honorary doctorate from University of Bordeaux-I🏆 honorary doctorate from University of Dunkerque🏆 Fisher-Schultz Lecture
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 Maurice Allais
- Doctoral Students
- 📖 Jean-Michel Grandmont📖 Xavier Vives i Torrents📖 Graciela Chichilnisky
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1921
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Birth2004
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