Thomas Schelling

Tags: Economist.

Thomas Crombie Schelling (born 14 April 1921) is an American economist and professor of foreign affairs national security nuclear strategy and arms control at the School of Public Policy at University of Maryland College Park. He is also co-faculty at the New England Complex Systems Institute. He 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.

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alma mater

Harvard University, University of California Berkeley, Yale University

award

Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences

birth date

1921-04-14

birth place

Oakland California, United States

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Lecturing at Sharif University of Technology

field

Game theory

individualised GND number

124591590

influenced

Tyler Cowen, Mark A.R. Kleiman, Robert Jervis

influenced by

Carl von Clausewitz, Niccolò Machiavelli

institution

New England Complex Systems Institute, Harvard University, Yale University, University of Maryland College Park

nationality

United States