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Gérard Debreu

1921 - 2004

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Gérard Debreu (French: [dəbʁø]; 4 July 1921 – 31 December 2004) was a French-born economist and mathematician. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gérard Debreu has received more than 189,721 page views. His biography is available in 47 different languages on Wikipedia. Gérard Debreu is the 99th most popular economist (down from 86th in 2019), the 1,291st most popular biography from France (down from 1,148th in 2019) and the 12th most popular French Economist.

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

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  • 2.99

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Gérard Debreu ranks 99 out of 414. Before him are Jean Charles Léonard de Sismondi, George Akerlof, Jacques Attali, Dale T. Mortensen, Gottfried Feder, and Hermann Heinrich Gossen. After him are Kristalina Georgieva, Lorenz von Stein, Oskar Morgenstern, Bingu wa Mutharika, Douglas McGregor, and Thomas Schelling.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Gérard Debreu ranks 68. Before him are Zizinho, György Cziffra, Mario Lanza, Miklós Jancsó, Farida of Egypt, and Paul Watzlawick. After him are Karel Appel, Amin al-Hafiz, Françoise Gilot, Thomas Schelling, Jack Steinberger, and Robert Bruce Merrifield. Among people deceased in 2004, Gérard Debreu ranks 43. Before him are Andriyan Nikolayev, John Vane, Theo van Gogh, Charles Sweeney, Godfrey Hounsfield, and Robert Merle. After him are Ko Yong-hui, Nicolai Ghiaurov, Herbert C. Brown, Arthur Hailey, Norberto Bobbio, and Brian Clough.

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In France

Among people born in France, Gérard Debreu ranks 1,291 out of 6,770. Before him are Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (1827), Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon, Duchess of Orléans (1753), Max Linder (1883), Dalmatius (350), Margaret of France, Duchess of Berry (1523), and Antoine Destutt de Tracy (1754). After him are Bernard Hinault (1954), Clément Marot (1495), Louis-Claude Daquin (1694), Ernest Gellner (1925), Emmanuel Mounier (1905), and Michel Butor (1926).

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Among ECONOMISTS In France

Among economists born in France, Gérard Debreu ranks 12. Before him are Anne Robert Jacques Turgot (1727), Léon Walras (1834), Frédéric Bastiat (1801), Maurice Allais (1911), Dominique Strauss-Kahn (1949), and Jean-Claude Trichet (1942). After him are Jean Tirole (1953), Pierre Guillaume Frédéric le Play (1806), Jacques Claude Marie Vincent de Gournay (1712), Pierre Leroux (1797), Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau (1715), and Thomas Piketty (1971).

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