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Gerard Debreu [1921-2004] French
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Mathematician, Economist


GĂ©rard Debreu was a French-born American 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 Economics.


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The dark outside world of Paris under German occupation exerted a strong containing pressure.
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I had become interested in economics, an interest that was transformed into a lifetime dedication when I met with the mathematical theory of general economic equilibrium.
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In the mid-'60s in Berkeley, the theory of measure spaces of economic agents became one of my main interests.
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The Cowles Commission was the optimal environment for the type of research that I wanted to do.
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