Thomas Schelling | |
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.jpg) Schelling in 2010 | |
| Born | Thomas Crombie Schelling April 14, 1921 Oakland, California, U.S. |
| Died | December 13, 2016 (aged 95) Bethesda, Maryland, U.S. |
| Academic career | |
| Field | Game theory |
| Institution | Yale University Harvard University University of Maryland New England Complex Systems Institute |
| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley (BA) Harvard University (PhD) |
| Doctoral advisor | Arthur Smithies Wassily Leontief James Duesenberry |
| Doctoral students | A. Michael Spence[1] Eli Noam[2] Tyler Cowen |
| Influences | Carl von Clausewitz, Niccolò Machiavelli |
| Contributions | Focal point Egonomics |
| Awards | The Frank E. Seidman Distinguished Award in Political Economy (1977)
Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2005) |
| Information at IDEAS / RePEc | |
| Academic background | |
| Thesis | National income behavior: An introduction to algebraic analysis (1951) |
Thomas Crombie Schelling (April 14, 1921 – December 13, 2016) was an American economist and professor of foreign policy, national security, nuclear strategy, and arms control at the School of Public Policy at University of Maryland, College Park. He was also co-faculty at the New England Complex Systems Institute.
Schelling was awarded the 2005 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (shared with Robert Aumann) for "having enhanced our understanding of conflict and cooperation through game theory analysis."[3]
- ^ Spence, A. Michael (December 8, 2001), Signaling in Retrospect and the Informational Structure of Markets (PDF), Nobel Foundation, p. 407, retrieved June 8, 2017
- ^ "Eli M. Noam". Columbia Institute for Tele-Information. Archived from the original on December 25, 2018. Retrieved October 16, 2016.
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