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Dec 13, 2016 · Thomas C. Schelling, an economist and Nobel laureate whose interest in game theory led him to write important works on nuclear strategy and to use the concept of the tipping point to explain...
Dec 14, 2016 · Thomas Schelling, the co-recipient of the 2005 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics Sciences, died yesterday at the age of 95. While not as famous as other Nobel-winning economists (such as...
Mar 3, 2021 · Thomas C. Schelling taught at Harvard for 32 years, in the Department of Economics and in the Kennedy School. More than any other thinker, Schelling influenced the West’s conceptual approach to the nuclear dangers after World War II. He was an outstanding economist, but ordinary disciplinary boundaries could not contain his fertile mind.
Schelling was a pioneer in behavioral economics, accomplishing significant and influential work in the ideas of coordination, commitment (both promises and threats), deterrence, focal points, and segregation. Schelling’s early work was on the most important issue of the Cold War: preventing it from becoming a hot war.
by Robert O'Neill. — Tom Schelling, whose pioneering work in game theory and understanding the “subtle tension … between conflict and cooperation” helped steady the Cold War’s nervous nuclear standoff, passed away Tuesday (Dec. 13).
2005 Nobel Prize Laureate in Economics Thomas Schelling has expertise in foreign affairs, national security, nuclear strategy and arms control. He came to the Maryland School of Public Affairs after twenty years at the John. F. Kennedy School of Government, where he was the Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Political Economy.
Dec 17, 2016 · Thomas C. Schelling, who died on December 13 at the age of 95, was a self-described “errant economist” who worked as a Cold War strategist and won the most prestigious prize of his...
