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John Charles Harsanyi (Hungarian: Harsányi János Károly; May 29, 1920 – August 9, 2000) was a Hungarian-American economist who spent most of his career at the University of California, Berkeley. He was the recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1994.
I was born in Budapest, Hungary, on May 29, 1920. The high school my parents chose for me was the Lutheran Gymnasium in Budapest, one of the best schools in Hungary, with such distinguished alumni as John von Neumann and Eugene Wigner. I was very happy in this school and received a superb education. In 1937, the year I graduated from it, I won ...
May 24, 2024 · John C. Harsanyi (born May 29, 1920, Budapest, Hung.—died Aug. 9, 2000, Berkeley, Calif., U.S.) was a Hungarian-American economist who shared the 1994 Nobel Prize for Economics with John F. Nash and Reinhard Selten for helping to develop game theory, a branch of mathematics that attempts to analyze situations involving conflicting interests ...
John C. Harsanyi was awarded the Economic Sciences Prize in for his work in game theory and its application to economics. He showed how games of incomplete information can be analysed thereby providing a theoretical foundation for a lively field of research – the economics of information.
John Harsanyi was born on May 29, 1920, in Budapest, Hungary. After high school, Harsanyi attended the University of Budapest (today: Eötvös Loránd University). In 1944, Harsanyi was taken captive by the Nazis due to his Jewish origins. On his way to the railway station to be deported to an Austrian concentration camp, Harsanyi escaped and ...
Oct 15, 1994 · Learn about the life and work of John Harsanyi, a Berkeley Haas economist who shared the 1994 Nobel Prize in economics for his contributions to game theory. He developed a model for games with incomplete information and advised on real-life negotiations.
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John C. Harsanyi. 1920-2000. J ohn C. Harsanyi was corecipient (with John Nash and Reinhard Selten) of the 1994 Nobel Prize in economics “for their pioneering analysis of equilibria in the theory of non-cooperative games.” Harsanyi’s interest in working on game theory was triggered when he read John Nash’s contributions of the early 1950s.
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