Background
GORMAN, William was born on June 17, 1923 in Kesh, Northern Ireland. Son of the late Richard Gorman and Sarah Crawford Gorman (nee Moore).
(W.M.(Terence) Gorman has been a major figure in the devel...)
W.M.(Terence) Gorman has been a major figure in the development of economies during the past forty years. His publications on separability, aggregation, duality and the modelling of consumer demand are recognized as fundamental contributions to economic theory. Many of his unpublished papers have achieved similar status as privately-circulated classics. This volume brings together for the first time all Gorman's important work, much of which has never been published before, on aggregation across commodities and agents, including separability, budgeting, representative agents, and the construction of capital and labour aggregates. Each chapter is preceded by an editorial introduction which describes its origin and place within the literature as well as the main results themselves. A forthcoming second volume, Modelling and Methodology, will cover topics on duality, demand, trade, and welfare. This book will appeal to academic economists interested in either specific aspects of Gorman's work or in the evolution of economic theory.
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GORMAN, William was born on June 17, 1923 in Kesh, Northern Ireland. Son of the late Richard Gorman and Sarah Crawford Gorman (nee Moore).
Bachelor in Economics, 1948. Bachelor in Mathematics, 1949. Fellow (honorary), Trinity College, Dublin, 1990.
Degree in social science (honorary), University Birmingham, England, 1973. Doctor of Science (honorary), University Southampton, 1974. Doctor Economic Science (honorary), National University Ireland, 1986.
Doctor of Science in Economics (honorary), University College London, 1998.
Assistant Lecturer, Lecturer then Senior Lecturer in charge. Department, of Econometrics and Social Statistics. Birmingham University 1949-1961.
Professor, of Economics, Oxford University and Professor Fellow of Nuffield College 1962-1967. Professor, of Economics, London School of Economics 1967-1979. Official Fellow, Nuffield College, Oxford 1979-1984, Senior Research Fellow since 1984.
Visiting Professor, at various United States universities between 1956 and 1980. Honorary D.Soc.Sc. (Binningham) 1973, Honorary Doctor of Science (Southampton) 1974, Honorary D.Econ.Sc. (National University of Ireland) 1986.
Fellow Econometric Society (President 1972). Honorary Foreign.
(W.M.(Terence) Gorman has been a major figure in the devel...)
James Davidson at Foyle College, Derry and George Duncan at Trinity College, Dublin taught me to think of mathematics and economics as styles of thought not collections of theorems, and Birmingham taught me to think of the social sciences as a unity with history as one way of holding them together. My research has accordingly been devoted to the end of flexible modelling, that is, to allow economists to immerse themselves in their data and in the opinions of other social scientists, and then to choose forms which seem capable of handling this information. This has been even more true of my teaching, largely through workshops for students beginning research.
With Royal Navy, 1943-1946. Fellow Econometric Society (president 1972), British Academy. Member American Academy Arts and Sciences (honorary foreign member), American Economic Association (honorary foreign member), Academia Europeae.
Married Dorinda Maud Scott, December 29, 1950.
