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Gerard Debreu has passed away
Gerard Debreu, 83, a former University of California at Berkeley economist who won a Nobel Prize for breakthroughs in the study of supply and demand, died Dec. 31 in Paris. No cause of death was reported.
Dr. Debreu taught at Berkeley for more than 30 years. He won the 1983 Nobel Prize in economic sciences for his theoretical work on how prices operate to balance supply and demand.
Here is an obituary. Here is The New York Times account.
Posted by Tyler Cowen on January 6, 2005 at 08:08 AM in Economics | Permalink
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