Background
Ellickson, Bryan Carl was born on February 12, 1941 in Brooklyn. Son of Raymond Thorwald and Loene (Gibson) Ellickson.
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The development of general equilibrium theory represents one of the greatest advances in economic analysis in the latter half of the twentieth century. This book, intended for advanced undergraduates and graduate students, provides a broad introduction to competitive equilibrium analysis with an emphasis on concrete applications. The coverage is exceptionally broad, including existence of equilibrium, models with a continuum of players, economies with individual commodities, computation of equilibrium, and infinite dimensional space. Well-designed and interesting applications help to make potentially abstract material more accessible.
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Ellickson, Bryan Carl was born on February 12, 1941 in Brooklyn. Son of Raymond Thorwald and Loene (Gibson) Ellickson.
Bachelor of Arts (Physics) University Oregon, 1963. Doctor of Philosophy Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass., USA, 1970.
Assistant Professor, Association Professor of Economics, University of California, Los Angeles, Calif., United States of America, 1968-1973, 1973-1983. Professor of Economics, University of California, Los Angeles, Calif., United States of America,
1983-. Editorial Board, Journal of Urban Economics,1979-.
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The unifying theme in my research has been indivisibility and nonconvexity with particular emphasis on hedonic theory and local public goods. My doctoral dissertation at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass., USA, which dealt with residential
location and local public goods, was an attempt to develop some ideas of Jerome Rothenberg in a general equilibrium setting. The principal contributions of that work, which have had some lasting impact, were the derivation of bid price functions using duality theory and characterisation of sufficient conditions for jurisdictions to stratify by income class in terms of the slopes of bid price functions.
Using some relatively simple tools of formal general equilibrium theory, I reached the conclusion that nonconvexity and local public goods were intimately related (No. 2 above). At that juncture I realised that, despite taking ‘advanced theory’ as my major field at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass., USA, I was dealing with mathematical issues that were over my head. As a consequence, I spent five years auditing graduate mathematics courses at University of California, Los Angeles, Calif., United States of America I am now in the process of writing a book on general equilibrium theory, which emphasises applications to indivisibility, nonconvexity and externality.
Member American Economic Association, Econometric Society.
Married Phyllis Lynn Rutter, June 19, 1965. 1 child, Paul Bryan.