1. Andreu Mas-Colell is the founder of the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics and a professor in the department of economics at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
10 Facts About Andreu Mas-Colell
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Andreu Mas-Colell has served several times in the cabinet of the Catalan government.
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Andreu Mas-Colell moved to the University of Minnesota for his graduate studies, and completed his Ph.
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Andreu Mas-Colell took a faculty position in mathematics and economics at the University of California, Berkeley, becoming a full professor in 1979.
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Andreu Mas-Colell was president of the Econometric Society in 1993 and of the European Economic Association in 2006.
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Andreu Mas-Colell served the Secretary General of the European Research Council from 2009 to 2010.
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Andreu Mas-Colell's book "offers a synthetic and thorough account of a major recent development in general equilibrium analysis, namely, the largely successful reconstruction of the theory using modern ideas of differential topology", according to its back cover.
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Andreu Mas-Colell is a foreign associate of the United States National Academy of Sciences, a foreign honorary member of the American Economic Association, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a member of the Academia Europaea, a member of the Institute of Catalan Studies, a fellow of the Real Academia de Ciencias Morales y Politicas, and a fellow of the Econometric Society.
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Andreu Mas-Colell has received honorary doctorates from the University of Alicante in Spain, the University of Toulouse and HEC Paris in France, the National University of the South in Argentina, and the University of Chicago in the United States.
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Andreu Mas-Colell is a recipient of the Creu de Sant Jordi, the highest civil honor of Catalonia, and of the King Juan Carlos Prize in Economics.