Hugo F. Sunshine

Hugo Freund Sunshine (born November 14, 1940 in New York City , † July 15, 2021 in Chicago ) was an American economist .

Life

Born in 1940, Sonnenschein received a bachelor's degree in mathematics from the University of Rochester in 1961 . In 1964 he received his PhD in economics from Purdue University . His supervisor was Stanley Reiter . He then worked at the University of Minnesota , the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and Northwestern University . In 1976 he moved to Princeton University . From 1977 to 1984 he was editor of Econometrica magazine . From 1988 to 1991, Sonnenschein was deanfrom the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania and from 1991 to 1993 Provost at Princeton University.

In 1993 he was named President of the University of Chicago . During his term of office there was a significant improvement in the financial situation, the expansion of the facilities and the dedication of the campus as a botanical garden . Since his resignation in 2000, he has held a professorship in Chicago named after Adam Smith .

Since 1984 he was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , in 1990 he was admitted to the National Academy of Sciences . He was a member of the American Philosophical Society and 1989 President of the Econometric Society .

He had three daughters with his wife, Elizabeth "Beth" Gunn Sonnenschein, whom he met in Rochester in 1957.

Research and Teaching

In his research, Sonnenschein dealt with microeconomics and general equilibrium theory . His most important contribution was the study of the mathematical structure of the demand function . With Gérard Debreu and Rolf Mantel , he laid the foundation for the Sonnenschein-Mantel-Debreu theorem in the early 1970s .

Honors

• 1990: BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Awards with Andreu Mas-Colell
• several honorary doctorates , including from Tel Aviv University , Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and Keiō University

literature

• Matthew O. Jackson, Andrew McLennan: Foundations in Microeconomic Theory: A Volume in Honor of Hugo F. Sonnenschein . Springer Science & Business Media, 2008, ISBN 978-3-540-74057-5 , doi: 10.1007 / 978-3-540-74057-5 .

Publications (selection)

• H. Sunshine: Market excess demand functions . In: Econometrica , 1972, JSTOR 1913184 .
• H. Sonnenschein: Do Walras' identity and continuity characterize the class of community excess demand functions? In: Journal of Economic Theory 6, No. 4, 1973, pp. 345-354, doi: 10.1016 / 0022-0531 (73) 90066-5 .
• W. Shafer, H. Sonnenschein: Equilibrium in abstract economies without ordered preferences . In: Journal of Mathematical Economics , 1975, doi: 10.1016 / 0304-4068 (75) 90002-6 .
• J. Roberts, H. Sonnenschein: On the foundations of the theory of monopolistic competition . In: Econometrica , 1977, JSTOR 1913289 .
• W. Novshek, H. Sonnenschein: Fulfilled expectations: Cournot duopoly with information acquisition and release . In: The Bell Journal of Economics , 1982, JSTOR 3003442 .
• F. Gul, H. Sonnenschein, R. Wilson: Foundations of dynamic monopoly and the Coase conjecture . In: Journal of Economic Theory , 1986, doi: 10.1016 / 0022-0531 (86) 90024-4 .
• S. Barberà, H. Sonnenschein, L. Zhou: Voting by committees . In: Econometrica , 1991, JSTOR 2938220 .

Web links

• Website at the University of Chicago
• Literature by and about Hugo F. Sonnenschein in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• List of publications at RePEc
• Maureen O'Donnell: Hugh Sonnenschein, controversial former University of Chicago president, dead at 80. In: Chicago Sun-Times . July 15, 2021 (English). 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Karen Chassie and others (eds.): Who's who in the Midwest: A Biographical Dictionary of Noteworthy Men and Women of the Central and Midwestern States. Marquis Who's Who, 2004, ISBN 0-8379-0734-9 , p. 554.
2. ↑ Maureen O'Donnell: Hugh Sonnenschein, controversial former University of Chicago president, dead at 80. In: Chicago Sun-Times . July 15, 2021, accessed July 16, 2021 . 
3. ^ University of Chicago , Office of the Provost : Hugo Sonnenschein. July 15, 2021, accessed July 16, 2021 . 
4. ↑ ^{a b c d} Matthew O. Jackson, Andrew McLennan (Eds.): Foundations in Microeconomic Theory: A Volume in Honor of Hugo F. Sonnenschein . Springer Science & Business Media, 2008, pp. 5–7: A brief Biographical Sketch of Hugo F. Sonnenschein , doi: 10.1007 / 978-3-540-74057-5_2
5. ↑ Past Editors and Co-editors of Econometrica , www.econometricsociety.org, accessed October 6, 2020.
6. ↑ Hugo Sunshine . University of Chicago website, Office of the President, accessed October 6, 2020.
7. ^ Members of the American Academy. Listed by election year, 1950-1999. (PDF, 226 kB) at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org).
8. ↑ 1990 elected members of the National Academy of Sciences .
9. ^ Hugo F. Sonnenschein: Biographical Sketch . University of Chicago website, accessed October 6, 2020.
10. ^ Hugo F. Sonnenschein: Do Walras' identity and continuity characterize the class of community excess demand functions? In: Journal of Economic Theory 6, No. 4, 1973, pp. 345-354, doi: 10.1016 / 0022-0531 (73) 90066-5 .
11. ^ Wayne Shafer, Hugo Sonnenschein: Market demand and excess demand functions. In: Kenneth J. Arrow and Michael D. Intrilligator (Eds.): Handbook of Mathematical Economics. Vol. 2. North Holland, Amsterdam 1982, ISBN 978-0-444-86127-6 , pp. 671-693, doi: 10.1016 / S1573-4382 (82) 02009-8 .
12. ^ S. Abu Turab Rizvi: The Sonnenschein-Mantel-Debreu Results after Thirty Years . In: History of Political Economy 38, pp. 228-246, Duke University Press, 2006, doi: 10.1215 / 00182702-2005-024 .
13. ^ Keio University's Honorary Degree of Economics Conferred upon Prof. Hugo F. Sonnenschein , October 16, 2015, press release from Keio University

See also

• Hugo Sunshine