Thomas Schelling

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Thomas Schelling (2007)

Thomas Crombie Schelling (born April 14, 1921 in Oakland , California , † December 13, 2016 in Bethesda , Maryland ) was an American economist and Nobel Prize winner. Most recently, he was Professor of Foreign Policy , National Security, Nuclear Strategy and Arms Control at the University of Maryland's School of Public Policy , College Park .

Career

Schelling studied economics at the University of California, Berkeley and received his doctorate in 1951 from Harvard University . He held various political positions in the 1940s and early 1950s. So he worked on the Marshall Plan in Europe and in the White House . He received his first professorship at Yale University . In 1958 he moved to Harvard, where he taught until 1990.

In 1991 Schelling was elected president of the American Economic Association .

research

Schelling's best-known book The Strategy of Conflict laid the foundation for the observation of (nuclear) strategic behavior and is considered one of the hundred books that have influenced the western world the most since 1945. Schelling argues, among other things, that complete nuclear disarmament would not lead to the goal, because knowledge of how to build an atom bomb is still available.

Another well-known work by Schelling is Micromotives and Macrobehavior (1978), which presents Schelling's model of segregation . It shows how differences lead to group formation or exclusion depending on initial conditions such as the number and distribution of differences.

In 2005, Schelling and Robert J. Aumann were awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics for his game theory analyzes (“They have,” the academy's justification , “advanced our understanding of conflict and cooperation through game theory analyzes”).

Honors

In 1967 Schelling was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , in 1984 to the National Academy of Sciences .

Fonts

  • Thomas C. Schelling: Economic reason and political ethics. Translated from the American by Christof Wockenfuß and Ingo Pies, in: ORDO , Volume 60, 2009, pp. 495-519.

literature

See also

Web links

Commons : Thomas Schelling  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ In Memory of Thomas Schelling . School of Public Policy , December 13, 2016, accessed December 14, 2016.
  2. ^ Past and Present Officers. aeaweb.org ( American Economic Association ), accessed October 27, 2015 .
  3. ^ Teeter, Robert: 100 Most Influential Books Since the War (TLS). Retrieved January 29, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Rico Grimm: Why a world free of nuclear weapons might not be a good idea after all. Krautreporter , March 31, 2015, accessed April 1, 2015 .
  5. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter S. (PDF; 1.4 MB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved March 4, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Schelling, Thomas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schelling, Thomas Crombie (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American economist and Nobel Prize winner
DATE OF BIRTH April 14, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Oakland , California
DATE OF DEATH December 13, 2016
Place of death Bethesda , Maryland