Thomas Schelling

Thomas Crombie Schelling ( born April 14, 1921 in Oakland, California) is an American economist and professor emeritus of foreign policy, national security, nuclear strategy, and arms control at the School of Public Policy ( School of Public Policy ) from the University of Maryland, College Park. He was awarded the Prize in Economic Sciences the Bank of Sweden in memory of Alfred Nobel 2005.

Life

Schelling studied economics at the University of California, Berkeley and received his PhD in 1951 at Harvard University. In the 1940s and early 1950s, he held several political positions. So he worked on the Marshall Plan in Europe and in the White House. He received at Yale University His first professorship. He then moved to Harvard.

Schelling's most famous book The Strategy of Conflict ( conflict strategy ) laid a foundation for the observation of ( nuclear ) strategic behavior and is considered one of the hundreds of books that have the Western world since 1945 influenced the most.

Another well-known work of Schelling 's Micro Motives and Macrobehavior (1978 ), which presents the Schelling segregation model. It shows how differences in group formations or exclusions, in dependence on initial conditions and number and distribution of the differences.

In 2005 Schelling and Robert J. Aumann with the price of Economics at the Swedish Riksbank in Memory of Alfred Nobel for his work in the context of game-theoretic analysis awarded ("You ", stated the Academy, " by game theoretic analysis, our understanding of conflict and cooperation forward. ").

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