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William M. Gorman, 1923-2003  

William Moore Gorman, better known as "Terence" Gorman, was born in Ireland and was raised in Lusaka, Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia), where he acquired the nickname "Terence". 

Gorman attended Foyle College, Derry then Trinity College Dublin, but interrupted his studies to serve in the Royal Navy, returning to receive his bachelor's degree in economics and mathematics from Trinity in 1948/49.

Gorman taught the University of Birmingham (alongside Hahn, McManus, etc) from 1949 to 1962, Gorman became a professor at Oxford University in 1962.  In 1967 he moved to the  L.S.E., helping build up its program in mathematical economics.  Gorman returned to Oxford in 1979 as a fellow of Nuffield College (Hicks's college).

Gorman made several important contributions to general equilibrium theory and consumer theory in particular, notably on social welfare functions, aggregation,  separability and characteristics theory.

 

  

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Major Works of William M. Gorman

  • "Community Preference Fields", 1953, Econometrica.
  • "The Intransitivity of Certain Criteria Used in Welfare Economics", 1955, Oxford EP.
  • "Convex Indifference Curves and Diminishing Marginal Utility", 1957, JPE
  • "Tariffs, Retaliation and the Elasticity of Demand for Imports", 1958, RES.
  • "Separable Utility and Aggregation", 1959, Econometrica
  • "Are Social Indifference Curves Convex?", 1959, QJE.
  • "Tariffs and Trade in a Two-Good World", 1960, IER
  • "On a Class of Preference Fields", 1961, Metroeconomica.
  • "Professor Friedman's Consumption Function and the Theory of Choice", 1964, Econometrica
  • "Measuring the Quantities of Fixed Factors",1967, in Wolfe, editor, Value, Capital and Growth.
  • "Conditions for Additive Separability", 1968, Econometrica
  • "The Structure of Utility Functions", 1968, RES.
  • "Preference, Revealed Preference and Indifference", 1971, in Chipman et al, Preferences, Utility and Demand
  • "A Possibility Procedure for Analysing Quality Differentials in the Egg Market", 1980, RES.
  • "Some Engel Curves", 1981, in Deaton, editor, Essays on Theory and Measurement of Demand.
  • "Le Chatelier and General Equilibrium", 1984, in Ingham and Ulph, editors, Demand, Equilibrium and Trade
  • Separability and Aggregation: Collected works of W.M. Gorman, 1995

 

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