Hans Brems
{{short description|American economist}}
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| birth_date = {{birth date|1915|10|16|mf=y}}
| birth_place = Viborg, Denmark
| death_date = {{death date and age|2000|9|16|1915|10|16|mf=y}}
| death_place = Urbana, Illinois
| nationality = Danish American
| institution = University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
| field = Macroeconomics
| alma_mater = University of Copenhagen
| doctoral_advisor = Frederik Zeuthen
| doctoral_students = Larry Samuelson
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Hans Julius Brems (October 16, 1915 – September 16, 2000) was a Danish American economist. He was known for his contributions in mathematical economics, especially quantitative model-building.{{cite web |url=http://www.news.illinois.edu/news/00/0919brems.html |title=Economist Hans Brems dies at 84 |date=September 19, 2000 }}
Born in Viborg, Denmark, Brems earned his doctorate from the University of Copenhagen. Upon his move to the United States, he taught at the University of California, Berkeley, before joining the faculty at University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1954. Although most of his later work was in macro-economics, his most original contribution was including quality competition in the Theory of Monopolistic Competition.
Selected publications
- {{cite journal |last=Brems |first=Hans |author-mask=3 |title=A Growth Model of International Direct Investment |journal=American Economic Review |volume=60 |issue=3 |year=1970 |pages=320–331 |jstor=1817982 }}
- {{cite journal |last=Brems |first=Hans |author-mask=3 |title=Long-Run Automobile Demand |journal=Journal of Marketing |volume=20 |issue=4 |year=1956 |pages=379–384 |doi=10.1177/002224295602000406 |jstor=1248239 |s2cid=168140728 }}
- {{cite journal |last=Brems |first=Hans |author-mask=3 |title=The Interdependence of Quality Variations, Selling Effort and Price |journal=Quarterly Journal of Economics |volume=62 |issue=3 |year=1948 |pages=418–440 |jstor=1882839 | doi = 10.2307/1882839 }}
Books
- (1951) Product Equilibrium under Monopolistic Competition Harvard University Press
- (1983) Fiscal Theory: Government, Inflation and Growth. Lexington Books. {{ISBN|978-0669056884}}.
- (1967) Quantitative economic theory: a synthetic approach. Wiley. ASIN: B007SZ2GN4.
- (1973) Labour, Capital and Growth. Lexington Books. {{ISBN|978-0669849059}}.
- (1986) Pioneering Economic Theory, 1630-1980: A Mathematical Restatement. The Johns Hopkins University Press. {{ISBN|978-0801826672}}.
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