Lionel W. McKenzie
| Lionel W. McKenzie | |
|---|---|
| Born |
January 26, 1919 Montezuma, Georgia |
| Died | October 12, 2010 (aged 91) |
| Nationality | American |
| Field | Economics |
| Doctoral advisor |
Oskar Morgenstern William Baumol |
| Doctoral students |
Jerry R. Green José Scheinkman Kazuo Nishimura Nicholas C. Yannelis Michele Boldrin |
| Information at IDEAS / RePEc | |
Lionel Wilfred McKenzie (January 26, 1919 – October 12, 2010) was the Wilson Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Rochester. He was born in Montezuma, Georgia. He completed undergraduate studies at Duke University in 1939 and subsequently moved to Oxford that year as a Rhodes Scholar. McKenzie worked with the Cowles Commission while it was in Chicago and served as an assistant professor at Duke from 1948–1957. Having received his Ph.D at Princeton University in 1956, McKenzie moved to Rochester where he was responsible for the establishment of the graduate program in economics.
McKenzie has been the recipient of numerous professional awards, including the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1973, election to the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1978, the Order of the Rising Sun in 1995 and honorary doctorates from Keio University in 1998 and Kyoto University in 2004. The latter three reflect the success of his many Japanese students. McKenzie has been referred to as "the father of the mathematical economists in Japan".
His research focused on general equilibrium and capital theory. Although most widely known as a co-creator of the Arrow–Debreu–McKenzie model, he also published a book and numerous research papers, including:
The 1954 paper provided the first proof of the existence of a general equilibrium, using Kakutani's fixed point theorem. Another proof, by Kenneth Arrow and Gérard Debreu, was published in the next issue of the same journal.
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