Thomas C. Schelling

Born: 1921-04-14 in Oakland, CA, USA

Gender: male

Field: American economist (1921–2016)

Biography

Thomas Crombie Schelling was an American economist and professor of foreign policy, national security, nuclear strategy, and arms control at the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland, College Park. He was also co-faculty at the New England Complex Systems Institute.

Nobel Prize Details

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2005

Awarded on: 2005-10-10

"for having enhanced our understanding of conflict and cooperation through game-theory analysis"

Affiliations:

University of Maryland, Department of Economics and School of Public Policy – College Park, MD, USA

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