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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