Gerard Debreu

Gerard Debreu, Nobel Laureate

Born: 1921-07-04 in Calais, France

Gender: male

Field: French economist and mathematician

Biography

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.

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Nobel Prize Details

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1983

Awarded on: 1983-10-17

"for having incorporated new analytical methods into economic theory and for his rigorous reformulation of the theory of general equilibrium"

Affiliations:

  • University of California – Berkeley, CA, USA
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