Background
Brems, Hans Julius was born on October 16, 1915 in Viborg, Denmark. Son of H. and Andrea (Golditz) Brems.
Brems, Hans Julius was born on October 16, 1915 in Viborg, Denmark. Son of H. and Andrea (Golditz) Brems.
Candidate political, University Copenhagen, 1941. Doctor political, University Copenhagen, 1950. Hedersdoktor (honorary), Helsinki, Finland, 1970.
Doctor mercantile (honorary), Copenhagen School Business, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1992.
Assistant professor University Copenhagen, 1943-1951. Lecturer University California, Berkeley, 1951-1954. Member faculty University Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, 1954-1986, professor, 1955-1986, professor emeritus, 1986-2000.
Visiting professor University California, Berkeley, 1959, Harvard University, 1960, University Kiel (Federal Republic of Germany), 1961, University Colorado, 1963, University Göttingen (Federal Republic of Germany), 1964, University Hamburg (Federal Republic of Germany), 1967, University Uppsala (Sweden), 1968, University Stockholm, 1980, University Zurich, 1983, others.
(Book by Brems, Professor Hans)
(Book by Brems, Professor Hans)
(Book by Brems, Hans)
Author: Product Equilibrium under Monopolistic Competition, 1951, Output, Employment, Capital, and Growth, 1959, second edition, 1973, Quantitative Economic Theory, 1968, Labor, Capital and Growth, 1973, Inflation, Interest, and Growth-A Synthesis, 1980, Dynamische Makrotheorie-Inflation, Zins und Wachstum, 1980, Fiscal Theory--Government, Inflation and Growth, 1983, Pioneering Economic Theory, 1630-1980, A Mathematical Restatement, 1986, Japanese translation, 1996. Contributor articles to professional journals and Encyclopedia Americana.
Early work attempted to measure product quality by input-output coefficients (1957), to optimise it, and to determine a productquality equilibrium under duopoly (1951, 1968). J. Friedman, Oligopoly Theory (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 1983) calls this work ‘a major effort that did not take hold’. Later work moved to international economics and attempted to marry the
elasticity and the absorption approaches to devaluation (1957) and to see international direct investment as part of a two-country neoclassical growth model with a flexible exchange rate (1970).
Three books (1973, 1980, and 1983) set out modern growth theory and attempted to apply it to monetary and fiscal theory by adding to it bonds, government, inflation, interest rates, money, shares, and taxation. Occasionally I have worked in the history of economic thought. For example, my 1970 Ricardo model incorporated fixed capital (‘machinery’) and is still, I believe, the only mathematical Ricardo model to do so.
A forthcoming volume, Pioneers of Economic Theory, will examine the theories of a score of major pioneers as models set out in algebra or calculus and solved to check consistency and properties claimed.
Member American Economic Association, Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Finnish Academy of Sciences and Letters.
Married Ulla Constance Simoni, May 20, 1944. Children: Lisa, Marianne, Karen Joyce.