ECONOMIST

Gérard Debreu

1921 - 2004

Photo of Gérard Debreu

Icon of person Gérard Debreu

Gérard Debreu (French: [dəbʁø]; 4 July 1921 – 31 December 2004) 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gérard Debreu is the 73rd most popular economist (up from 99th in 2019), the 991st most popular biography from France (up from 1,291st in 2019) and the 11th most popular French Economist.

Gérard Debreu is most famous for his work on the existence of a general equilibrium.

Memorability Metrics

Loading...

Page views of Gérard Debreu by language

Loading...

Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Gérard Debreu ranks 73 out of 414. Before him are Lawrence Klein, Kenneth Arrow, Robert Mundell, Benjamin Graham, Friedrich List, and Thorstein Veblen. After him are James Tobin, Robert Solow, Murray Rothbard, Finn E. Kydland, Beatrice Webb, and Tjalling Koopmans.

Most Popular Economists in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Gérard Debreu ranks 53. Before him are Lotfi A. Zadeh, Georges Brassens, Kenneth Arrow, James Jones, Abdul Salam Arif, and Sugar Ray Robinson. After him are Yitzhak Navon, Jack Steinberger, Telmo Zarra, Zdeněk Miler, Geoffrey Wilkinson, and Harald Quandt. Among people deceased in 2004, Gérard Debreu ranks 33. Before him are Laura Branigan, Julius Axelrod, Carlos Kleiber, Ko Yong-hui, Herbert C. Brown, and Leônidas. After him are Renata Tebaldi, Abdel Aziz al-Rantisi, Edward B. Lewis, Jerry Goldsmith, John Vane, and Ingrid Thulin.

Others Born in 1921

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Others Deceased in 2004

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

In France

Among people born in France, Gérard Debreu ranks 991 out of 6,770. Before him are Louis Antoine, Duke of Enghien (1772), Alain-René Lesage (1668), François Joseph Lefebvre (1755), René Lalique (1860), Carole Bouquet (1957), and Manu Chao (1961). After him are Bourvil (1917), Michael Lonsdale (1931), Geoffrey of Villehardouin (1150), Joan II of Navarre (1311), Antoine Bourdelle (1861), and Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli (1700).

Others born in France

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Among ECONOMISTS In France

Among economists born in France, Gérard Debreu ranks 11. Before him are Anne Robert Jacques Turgot (1727), Maurice Allais (1911), Léon Walras (1834), Jacques Delors (1925), Dominique Strauss-Kahn (1949), and Frédéric Bastiat (1801). After him are Jean-Claude Trichet (1942), Jean Tirole (1953), Pierre Guillaume Frédéric le Play (1806), Jacques Claude Marie Vincent de Gournay (1712), Michel Camdessus (1933), and Thomas Piketty (1971).

French born Economists

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous