Andreu Mas-Colell
The Honourable Andreu Mas-Colell | |
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Councillor of Economy and Knowledge of Catalonia | |
In office 29 December 2010 – 14 January 2016 | |
Prime Minister | Artur Mas |
Preceded by | Antoni Castells (Economy) Josep Huguet (Innovation and Universities) |
Succeeded by | Oriol Junqueras |
Personal details | |
Born | Andreu Mas-Colell 29 June 1944 University of Minnesota-Minneapolis |
Doctoral advisor | Marcel Kessel Richter |
Doctoral students | Timothy Kehoe Eddie Dekel Mathias Dewatripont Atsushi Kajii Roberto Serrano Antoni Calvó-Armengol |
Information at IDEAS / RePEc | |
Andreu Mas-Colell (Catalan:
In June 2021, Spain’s
Biography
A native of Barcelona,[1] Mas-Colell completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Barcelona, earning a degree in economics in 1966. He moved to the University of Minnesota for his graduate studies, and completed his Ph.D. in 1972 under the supervision of Marcel Richter.[10] He took a faculty position in mathematics and economics at the University of California, Berkeley, becoming a full professor in 1979. In 1981, he moved to Harvard University, and in 1988 he became the Louis Berkman Professor of Economics at Harvard.[2][3][4][5] In 1995 he moved to Pompeu Fabra to lead the Department of Economics and Business.[1] He was editor-in-chief of the Journal of Mathematical Economics from 1985 to 1989, and of Econometrica from 1988 to 1998. He was president of the Econometric Society in 1993 and of the European Economic Association in 2006.[2][3][5]
In public service, Mas-Colell was the Commissioner for Universities and Research of the
Spain’s
Research
Mas-Colell's research has ranged broadly over mathematical economics. In particular, he has been associated with a revival of the use of
Mas-Colell has also contributed to the theory of general equilibrium in topological vector lattices.[14] The sets of prices and quantities can be described as partially ordered vector spaces, often as vector lattices. Economies with uncertain or dynamic decisions typically require that the vector spaces be infinite-dimensional, in which case the order properties of vector lattices allow stronger conclusions to be made.[15] Recently researchers have studied nonlinear pricing: A "main motivation came from the fact that Mas-Colell's fundamental theory of welfare economics with no interiority assumptions crucially requires lattice properties of commodity spaces, even in finite-dimensional settings."[16]
Books
Mas-Colell is the author or co-author of:
- The Theory of General Economic Equilibrium: a Differentiable Approach (Econometric Society Monographs in Pure Theory 9, Cambridge University Press, 1990, ISBN 978-0-521-38870-2). This book was evaluated for Mathematical Reviewsby Dave Furth, who wrote that
- Mas-Colell's book is one of the first and still one of the most complete and most rigorous of the few textbooks on the applications of differential topology and global analysis to the theory of general economic equilibrium. .... People working in the field ought to own and to have used it already for some time. So those still wanting to consult for the first time and perhaps wanting to buy the book must be mathematicians interested in economic applications of the above-mentioned mathematical subjects. They will not regret consulting and/or buying it; the book is excellent.[17]
- Microeconomic Theory (with ISBN 978-0-19-507340-9). Johansson (2004) writes that this was "the most commonly used textbook in microeconomics", Jönköping excepted (the investigation covers all economics Ph.D. programs in Sweden for the academic year 2003-04).[8]
- Noncooperative approaches to the theory of perfect competition. New York: Academic Press. 1982. ISBN 9780124767508.
Awards and honors
Mas-Colell is a foreign associate of the
Also he has received the 2009 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Economy, Finance and Management (co-winner with Hugo F. Sonnenschein).
In honor of his 65th birthday and his service on the European Research Council, two conferences were held in his honor at Pompeu Fabra in 2009, the Journal of Mathematical Economics published a special issue in his honor, and he was awarded the Medal of Honor of the university.[5]
See also
- Clara Ponsatí i Obiols
References
- ^ a b c Page 559: Jackson, Allyn (May 2005). "Mathematics in Barcelona: Time past, time future" (PDF). Notices of the American Mathematical Society. Vol. 47, no. 5. pp. 554–560.
- ^ a b c d e f Curriculum vitae from Mas-Colell's web site at Pompeu Fabra, retrieved 2011-01-17.
- ^ a b c d e f Faculty profile, Barcelona Graduate School of Economics, retrieved 2011-01-17.
- ^ a b c d e f Andreu Mas-Colell, an internationally recognised economist leading Catalan economy's recovery, Catalan News Agency, December 28, 2010.
- ^ a b c d e f g Academic Acknowledgement to Prof. Mas-Colell Prior to Commencing New Role at ERC, Barcelona Graduate School of Economics, retrieved 2011-01-17.
- ^ ISBN 0-12-076975-1.
- MR 1113262.
- ^ .
- ^ a b Wilkinson, Isambard (15 June 2021). "Outcry as retired Catalan minister faces multimillion-euro 'independence' fine". The Times. Archived from the original on 15 June 2021.
- ^ Andreu Mas-Colell at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
- ^ Page 1431: Jackson, Allyn (December 2009). "A Trio of institutes" (PDF). Notices of the American Mathematical Society. Vol. 56, no. 11. pp. 1425–1434.
- ^ Gérard Debreu The Theory of Value: An axiomatic analysis of economic equilibrium, 1959
- MR 1113262.
- S2CID 14180426.
- MR 1075992.
- ^ Page 503 (Chapter 8 "Applications to economics", especially Section 8.5. "Pareto optimality in ordered commodity spaces", and the remainder of the chapter, particularly Section 8.5.11 "Nonlinear pricing")
MR 2191745.
- MR 1113262..
- ^ "Andreu Mas-Colell awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Chicago". Universitat Pompeu Fabra. 15 June 2015. Retrieved 2024-02-21.
External links
- Web site at Pompeu Fabra University