Professor Hugo Sonnenschein, doctor 'honoris causa' of the UAB, passes away
Hugo Sonnenschein, UAB honorary doctor proposed by the Department of Economics and Economic History, and chair of the Barcelona GSE scientific advisory committee, died yesterday, 15 July. The University expresses its deepest condolences to all the people who knew and appreciated him and shares the feeling for his loss.
Hugo Sonnenschein passed away yesterday, 15 July. Professor Sonnenschein was an honoray doctor of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona at the proposal of our Department of Economics and Economic History, and president of the Barcelona GSE scientific advisory committee.
Hugo Sonnenschein received his Ph.D. from Purdue University in 1964 and was professor at the universities of Minnesota, Massachusetts, Northwestern (where he was the thesis advisor of our colleague Salvador Barberà) and Princeton. He also developed a successful career as a university administrator: he was Dean at Penn, Provost at Princeton and President of the University of Chicago.
Professor Sonnenschein received the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in 2009. His most outstanding scientific contribution was the famous Sonnenschein-Mantel-Debreu theorem, according to which the supply and demand functions of the standard competitive model can take any form. This means that the quantities supplied and demanded do not need to have a monotonous relationship with prices in equilibrium.
We acknowledge his strong support, which was decisive, to the development of the economics profession in Barcelona.
The University expresses its deepest condolences to all the people who knew and appreciated him and shares the feeling for his loss.