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Reinhard Selten (2001)

Reinhard Justus Reginald Selten (born October 5, 1930 in Breslau ; † August 23, 2016 in Poznan ) was a German economist and mathematician . In 1994 he was the only German so far to receive the Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize for Economics for their joint achievements in the field of game theory, together with John Nash and John Harsanyi .

Life

Seldy's father was a Jew who was married to a Protestant. Reinhard Selten was therefore considered a half-Jew during the Third Reich . His father ran a reading group , which he had to give up in the mid-1930s because of his Jewish descent. He died in 1942 after a serious illness. At the age of 14, Selten had to leave high school because of his Jewish descent. At the beginning of 1945, he and his family fled Wroclaw from the approaching Red Army . They finally came to Hesse via Saxony and Austria. From 1946 he went to a higher school there and passed his Abitur at the Geschwister-Scholl-Gymnasium in Melsungen with distinction in 1951 .

Seldom studied mathematics at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main , where he obtained his diploma in 1957. He then worked as a research assistant at Heinz Sauermann until 1967 . In 1961 , also in Frankfurt, he received his doctorate in mathematics with a thesis on the evaluation of n-person games for Dr. phil.

He was visiting professor at Berkeley and then completed his habilitation in Frankfurt. From 1969 to 1972 he taught at the Free University of Berlin and from 1972 to 1984 at the University of Bielefeld . At the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF) he headed the research group “Game Theory in the Behavioral Sciences” in 1987/88. From 1982 to 2015 Selten was a member of the ZiF Advisory Board. In 1984 he took a call to the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms University of Bonn. There he set up the BonnEconLab , a laboratory for experimental economic research, where he was also active after his retirement.

From 2006 he headed an academy project of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts with the title Rationality in the Light of Experimental Economic Research .

In 1959 he married his long-time friend Elisabeth Langreiner. The childless couple lived in Königswinter-Ittenbach .

Act

In 1965, Seldom developed the concept of subgame- perfect balance and in 1975 the concept of trembling-hand-perfect balance . In 1994 he was awarded the Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics for his contribution to game theory , along with John Harsanyi and John Nash . He was also known for his work in the area of restricted rationality (see for example the so-called claim adjustment theory of Sauermann and Selten and the concept of the imitation equilibrium of Ostmann and Selten), and he was one of the founders of experimental economics . Together with Gerd Gigerenzer he published the book Bounded rationality: The adaptive toolbox . His last work was Impulse Balance Theory and its Extension by an Additional Criterion .

Reinhard Selten was a member of the Econometric Society and the European Economic Association (EEA), of which he was president for many years. He was an honorary member of the American Economic Association (AEA). In 2012 he became a member of the Leopoldina . He was also a full member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts , an associate member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and, since 1992, an external honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and since 1996 of the National Academy of Sciences . He was a founding member of the "International Academy of Sciences San Marino". Seldom, like his wife, spoke Esperanto since his youth and has written and edited several works in Esperanto, including on the application of game theory to the problem of choosing an international language. Seldom ran for the European elections in 2009 as the top German candidate for the list Europe - Democracy - Esperanto (EDE).

His students include many economists and researchers such as Bernd Irlenbusch , Axel Ockenfels , Christian Rieck , Bettina Rockenbach , Abdolkarim Sadrieh, Benny Moldovanu and Rosemarie Nagel.

honors and awards

The Verein für Socialpolitik awards the Reinhard Selten Prize named after him .

In 2019, a street on the new Poppelsdorf campus of the University of Bonn was named after Selten.

Works (selection)

  • Evaluation of n-person games . Dissertation from July 24, 1961, University of Frankfurt, natural sciences. Faculty, Frankfurt, 1961.
  • Price policy of the multi-product enterprise in the static theory . Habilitation thesis, FU Berlin. Springer, Berlin [a. a.] 1970. (Econometrics and Business Research, Volume 16)
  • Add. with Werner Güth: Does unity make us strong? Game theory analysis of a negotiation situation . Institute for Mathemat. Economic research at the Univ. Bielefeld, Bielefeld 1977. (Working papers / Institute of Mathematical Economics; No. 58)
  • Add. with Werner Güth: Original or forgery - balance selection in a negotiation game with incomplete information . Institute for Mathemat. Economic research at the Univ. Bielefeld, Bielefeld 1982. (Working papers; No. 113)
  • The conceptual foundations of game theory then and now . Bonn Graduate School of Economics, Departments of Economics, University of Bonn. Bonn Graduate School of Economics, Bonn 2001. (Bonn Econ Discussion Papers / Bonn Graduate School of Economics, Department of Economics, University of Bonn; 2001, 2)
  • Enkonduko en la teorion de lingvaj ludoj: Ĉu mi lernu Esperanton? = Introduction to the theory of linguistic games / Reinhard Selten; Jonathan Pool. Akad. Book Service, Berlin [k. A.] 1995. ( Basic studies in cybernetics and humanities ; Volume 36, 1995, [Suppl.]) ISBN 3-929853-03-5 .
  • For bilingualism in Europe / Por dulingveco en Eŭropo , with Helmar G. Frank, IFB Verlag Paderborn, 2005.
  • The costs of European (non) communication , Selten, Reinhard, (Ed.), Translated from the Italian by Jonathan Chaloff, Verl. Roma Esperanto Radikala Asocio.
  • Gigerenzer, G., & Selten, R. (Eds.). (2001). Bounded rationality: The adaptive toolbox . Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
  • Impulse Balance Theory and its Extension by an Additional Criterion. BoD. (2015)

literature

  • Axel Ockenfels, Abdolkarim Sadrieh (editor): The Selten school of behavioral economics: A collection of essays in honor of Reinhard Selten . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-13982-6 .

See also

Web links

Commons : Reinhard Selten  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Philip Plickert: Mourning the famous economist: Nobel laureate Reinhard Selten died . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . September 1, 2016, ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed September 1, 2016]).
  2. ^ Nobel laureate: game theorist Reinhard Selten was 85 years old - manager magazin. Retrieved September 2, 2016 .
  3. ^ Curriculum vitae on the online site of the "Stiftung Kulturwerk Schlesien"; Retrieved June 2, 2015.
  4. ↑ Reinhard Selten in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)Template: MathGenealogyProject / Maintenance / name used
  5. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of November 6, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ Member entry of Reinhard Selten (with picture) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on February 1, 2016.
  7. ↑ Autobiography
  8. ^ List of holders of the State Order of Merit . State Chancellery of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, accessed on June 23, 2020 .
  9. ^ Report on the award of the honorary professorship, website of the Nanjing Audit University ( Memento of April 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) engl.
  10. ↑ Street naming in the area of ​​the Poppelsdorf university campus. (PDF; 133 KB) In: Ratsinformationssystem. City of Bonn, July 9, 2019, accessed on April 13, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Rarely, Reinhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rare, Reinhard Justus Reginald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Nobel Prize winner, economist, mathematician and Esperantist
DATE OF BIRTH 5th October 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH 23rd August 2016
Place of death Poses