Nobel Prize Winner Gerard Debreu: An Economist's Economist

Theoretician Gerard Debreu wins the Nobel Prize

It was a thin book, just 114 pages long and studded with mathematical symbols, but it addressed one of the deepest and most nagging problems in economics Titled Theory of Value, the 1959 work made its author Gerard Debreu a revered figure among his colleagues. Last week the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences extended Debreu's fame far beyond such professional confines. The academy announced that it was awarding the 1983 Nobel Prize in Economics to Debreu, 62, for three decades of distinguished achievement. The French-born professor of economics and mathematics at the University of California...

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