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43
Citations
33671
World Ranking
1893
National Ranking
1101

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1984 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1983 - Nobel Prize for having incorporated new analytical methods into economic theory and for his rigorous reformulation of the theory of general equilibrium
  • 1983 - Nobel Memorial Prize laureates in Economics for having incorporated new analytical methods into economic theory and for his rigorous reformulation of the theory of general equilibrium
  • 1982 - Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association
  • 1977 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1968 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Gerard Debreu is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Throughout their career, they have collaborated frequently with Herbert E. Scarf.

Debreu's work has been recognized by several prestigious awards. These include the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics awarded in 1983 for incorporating new analytical methods into economic theory and for the rigorous reformulation of the theory of general equilibrium. In the same year, Debreu received the Nobel Prize with the same citation. Other distinctions include being named a Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association in 1982, election to the National Academy of Sciences in 1977, a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1968, and being recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1984.

Best Publications

  • EXISTENCE OF AN EQUILIBRIUM FOR A COMPETITIVE ECONOMY

    Kenneth J. Arrow;Gerard Debreu

  • Theory of Value

    E. Baudier;G. Debreu

  • Existence of an Equilibrium for a Competitive Economy

    Unknown

  • The Coefficient of Resource Utilization

    Gerard Debreu

  • A Social Equilibrium Existence Theorem.

    Gerard Debreu

  • Theory of value : an axiomatic analysis of economic equilibrium

    Gerard Debreu

  • A limit theorem on the core of an economy

    Gerard Debreu;Herbert E. Scarf

  • Excess demand functions

    Gerard Debreu

  • Mathematical Economics: Topological methods in cardinal utility theory

    Gerard Debreu

  • Economies with a finite set of equilibria

    Gerard Debreu

  • Economies with a finite set of equilibria

    Gerard Debreu

  • A Limit Theorem on the Core of an Economy

    Unknown

  • VALUATION EQUILIBRIUM AND PARETO OPTIMUM.

    Gerard Debreu

  • Mathematical Economics: Continuity properties of Paretian utility

    Gerard Debreu

  • Nonnegative Square Matrices

    Gerard Debreu;I. N. Herstein

  • Continuity Properties of Paretian Utility

    Unknown

  • The Mathematization of Economic Theory

    Gerard Debreu

  • NEW CONCEPTS AND TECHNIQUES FOR EQUILIBRIUM ANALYSIS

    Gerard Debreu

  • The coefficient of resource utilization

    Unknown

  • Definite and Semidefinite Quadratic Forms

    Gerard Debreu

  • Stochastic Choice and Cardinal Utility

    Gerard Debreu

  • Existence of competitive equilibrium

    Gerard Debreu

  • MARKET EQUILIBRIUM

    Gerard Debreu

  • Economic Theory in the Mathematical Mode

    Gerard Debreu

  • Chapter 15 Existence of competitive equilibrium

    Gerard Debreu

Frequent Co-Authors

Kenneth J. Arrow
Kenneth J. Arrow Stanford University
Lawrence R. Klein
Lawrence R. Klein University of Pennsylvania
Milton Friedman
Milton Friedman Oregon Health & Science University
Andreu Mas-Colell
Andreu Mas-Colell Pompeu Fabra University

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