Lloyd Shapley

Lloyd Stowell Shapley ( born June 2, 1923 in Cambridge, Massachusetts) is an American economist and mathematician. He is professor emeritus at the University of California, Los Angeles. His publication area is the mathematical economics, particularly game theory. In 2012 he was awarded in memory of Alfred Nobel, together with Alvin E. Roth, the price of Economics of the Swedish Riksbank.

Life

The son of astronomer Harlow Shapley was awarded his Ph.D. 1954 at Princeton University. The economist worked from 1948, with an interruption ( 1950-1953 ) until 1981 for the Rand Corporation. Since 1981 he has held a professorship at the University of California in Los Angeles. As important contributions of the scientist are among others the Shapley value and the Shapley - Shubik index. The World War II for the decryption of Soviet radio signals with the Bronze Star (1944 ) excellent Shapley was awarded the John von Neumann Theory Prize for his research achievements in 1981. He is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

In game theory, he led in 1953 Stochastic games as a generalization of Markov decision processes.

Writings (selection )

  • A Value for n- person games, with H. W. Kuhn and A.W. Tucker, in Contributions to the Theory of Games Volume II, 1953
  • Stochastic games, in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, Volume 39, pp. 1095-1100, 1953
  • A Method for Evaluating the Distribution of Power in a Committee System, with Martin Shubik, in American Political Science Review, Volume 48, S.787 -792, 1954
  • On Market Games, Martin Shubik, in Journal of Economic Theory, Volume 1, pp. 9-25, 1969
  • Cores of Convex Games, in International Journal of Game Theory, Volume 1, pp. 11-26, 1971
  • Values ​​of Non- Atomic Games, with Robert Aumann, Princeton University Press. , 1974
  • Mathematical Properties of the Banzhaf power index, with Pradeep Dubey, in Mathematics of Operations Research, Volume 4, pp. 99-132, 1979
  • On Authority Distributions in Organizations, with X.Hu in Games and Economic Behavior, Volume 45, pp. 132-152, pp. 153-170. , 2003
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