Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1983

Gerard Debreu

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The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1983 was awarded to Gerard Debreu "for having incorporated new analytical methods into economic theory and for his rigorous reformulation of the theory of general equilibrium"

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