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W.M. (Terence) Gorman was a theorist’s theorist who nonetheless thought himself to be very practical. His contributions were brilliantly original – both in conception and in technical execution – but they often were a difficult read. We sketch below two of his lifelong interests – aggregation over agents and aggregation over commodities – and discuss briefly a few of his other contributions. We hope this brief outline will encourage others to peruse his works in more detail.
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Blackorby, C., Primont, D., Russell, R.R. (2018). Gorman, W.M. (Terence). In: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95189-5_2538
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