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Aug 12, 2000 · John C. Harsanyi, who won the 1994 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science for his work on game theory, died on Wednesday in Berkeley, Calif. Mr. Harsanyi, 80, was a professor at the Haas School ...
John Harsanyi. John Charles Harsanyi ( Hungarian: Harsányi János Károly; May 29, 1920 – August 9, 2000) was a Hungarian economist. He is best known for his study of game theory. [1] With John Nash and Reinhard Selten, they won the 1994 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences .
Oct 15, 1994 · After Harsanyi had published his new model in the 1960s, it took fellow economists years to start implementing his findings. On October 11 at 4:30 a.m., however, proof that Harsanyi’s ideas had fully penetrated mainstream economics came in the form of a phone call from Sweden, announcing that he was one of three winners of the Nobel Prize.
Aug 11, 2000 · Harsanyi was born on May 29, 1920, in Budapest, Hungary, as the son of a Catholic pharmacist of Jewish descent and was educated at the University of Budapest. His main interests were in mathematics and philosophy, but because of the uncertain political situation and the impending Nazi danger, Harsanyi opted to obtain a degree in pharmacology so ...
Aug 9, 2000 · John C. Harsanyi was born in 1920 in Budapest where I also grew up. He studied pharmacology at the university of Budapest before his studies were interrupted in 1944 because of the war. After the war, Harsanyi returned to the university where he met his wife Anne.
He moved to the United States in 1956, and spent most of his life there. According to György Marx, he was one of The Martians. [2] Harsanyi was born on May 29, 1920, in Budapest, Hungary, the son of Alice Harsányi (née Gombos) and Károly Harsányi, a pharmacy owner. [3] His parents converted from Judaism to Catholicism a year before he was ...
Harsanyi's parents defected from communist Hungary in 1969. He explained to Glazov that his parents helped instill in him the deep importance of personal freedom. While he believes it is the government's proper role to protect citizens, in matters of individual choice, he said, the government should act with caution.
