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H. Peyton Young | |
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| Born | March 9, 1945 |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | North Shore Country Day School Harvard University University of Michigan |
| Known for | Evolutionary Game Theory Social Dynamics Learning in Games Social Norms Distributive justice Applications of Game Theory to Finance |
| Awards | George Hallett Award, American Political Science Association Lester R. Ford Award, Mathematical Association of America |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Economics, Game Theory, Finance |
| Institutions | London School of Economics University of Oxford Nuffield College, Oxford U.S. Department of the Treasury |
| Doctoral advisor | Thomas Frederick Storer Jack Edmonds |
Hobart Peyton Young (born March 9, 1945) is an American game theorist and economist known for his contributions to evolutionary game theory and its application to the study of institutional and technological change, as well as the theory of learning in games. He is currently centennial professor at the London School of Economics, James Meade Professor of Economics Emeritus at the University of Oxford, professorial fellow at Nuffield College Oxford, and research principal at the Office of Financial Research at the U.S. Department of the Treasury.
Peyton Young was named a fellow of the Econometric Society in 1995, a fellow of the British Academy in 2007, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2018. He served as president of the Game Theory Society from 2006–08.[1] He has published widely on learning in games, the evolution of social norms and institutions, cooperative game theory, bargaining and negotiation, taxation and cost allocation, political representation, voting procedures, and distributive justice.
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