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Thomas C. Schelling
Thomas C. Schelling, Distinguished University Professor and Professor of Economics, Emeritus, of Harvard University. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard. He spent the years 1948-1953 in Europe and Washington with the Marshall Plan and related programs, joined Yale University in 1953, Harvard University in 1958 and came to Maryland in 1990. He is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association and was its President in 1991. His research interests have included military strategy and arms control, energy and environmental policy, climate change, nuclear proliferation, organized crime, foreign aid and international trade, conflict and bargaining theory, racial segregation and integration, the military draft, tobacco and drugs policy, and ethical issues in policy and in business. His publications include: The strategy of Conflict, Harvard University Press, 1960; Arms and Influence, Yale University Press, 1966; Micromotives and Macrobehavior, Norton, 1978; Choice and Consequence, Harvard University Press, 1984.
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Yale News
November 7, 2017
Previous Stimson Lectures have included “Political Order in Changing Societies” by Samuel P. Huntington; “Financial Crises in Emerging Markets” by Alexandre Lamfalussy; “Arms and Influence” by Thomas C. Schelling; “The Arab Center, The Promise of Moderation” by Ambassador Marwan Muasher;ÃÂ ...
The Reality-Based Community
March 2, 2017
On Tuesday I spoke at the University of Maryland memorial service for my teacher and friend Tom Schelling, who died last year at the age of 95. The photo above was on the dais. I didn't speak from a text, but this is something like what I said:ÃÂ ...
The Diamondback
February 28, 2017
... and he created the understanding between the United States and Soviet Union that the two countries used for rational conversation." After the memorial service, people gathered for a reception in Marie Mount Hall. The public policy school has created the Thomas C. Schelling Fund to continue his legacy.
War on the Rocks
December 28, 2016
So much has been written about Tom Schelling's enormous intellectual contributions. I would like to supplement these articles with a more personal account. I first “met” Tom in print. As a junior at Oberlin College, I ran across The Strategy of Conflict. Without seeing all of its implications and nuances, I foundÃÂ ...
The Boston Globe
December 17, 2016
Thomas C. Schelling, a former longtime professor at Harvard University and the Kennedy School of Government whose insights on group and personal behaviors spanned many disciplines and were credited with reducing the risk of nuclear war, died Tuesday in his Bethesda, Md., home. The NobelÃÂ ...
New York Times
December 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 social problems, including white flight from urban neighborhoods, died on Tuesday at his home in Bethesda, Md.
NPR
December 12, 2013
This week, Congress has been pondering yet another deal with a deadline. Congressional leaders have agreed to a bipartisan budget that would set spending levels for the next two years, and if it passes, as expected, it would mark the first bipartisan budget deal since 2011. News of the deal comes againÃÂ ...
The Express Tribune
October 14, 2017
Nobel laureate Thomas C Schelling's seminal work on strategy of conflict and the 'nuclear game' took economics beyond the more mundane ...
gulfnews.com
October 7, 2017
Stockholm: The economics prize is the only Nobel not originally included in Alfred Nobel's last will and testament. It was established in 1968 by ...
The Reality-Based Community
March 2, 2017
On Tuesday I spoke at the University of Maryland memorial service for my teacher and friend Tom Schelling, who died last year at the age of 95.
War on the Rocks
December 28, 2016
For special access to experts and other members of the national security community, check out the new War on the Rocks membership.
The Boston Globe
December 17, 2016
Thomas C. Schelling, a former longtime professor at Harvard University and the Kennedy School of Government whose insights on group and ...
New York Times
December 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 ...
Business Today
July 25, 2017
Noted journalist Fareed Zakaria once quoted American economist Thomas C Schelling who had famously observed that two things are veryÃÂ ...
The Reality-Based Community
May 3, 2017
This Monday the friends, colleagues, family, students, and disciples of Thomas C. Schelling gathered at the Kennedy School to honor hisÃÂ ...
The Reality-Based Community
March 2, 2017
On Tuesday I spoke at the University of Maryland memorial service for my teacher and friend Tom Schelling, who died last year at the age of 95.
The Diamondback
February 28, 2017
Maureen Cropper, a professor at UMD, spoke of Schelling's kindness at a memorial held in the Campus chapel on Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017.
War on the Rocks
December 28, 2016
For special access to experts and other members of the national security community, check out the new War on the Rocks membership.
The Boston Globe
December 17, 2016
Thomas C. Schelling, a former longtime professor at Harvard University and the Kennedy School of Government whose insights on group andÃÂ ...
Harvard Gazette
December 14, 2016
Thomas C. Schelling, whose pioneering work in game theory and understanding the “subtle tension … between conflict and cooperation”à...
New York Times
December 13, 2016
Thomas C. Schelling, an economist and Nobel laureate whose interest in game theory led him to write important works on nuclear strategy andÃÂ ...
NPR
December 12, 2013
House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., speaks with Senate Budget Committee Chairwoman Patty Murray, D-Wash., on Nov.
Newsweek
January 23, 2011
The real global challenge facing us will be organizing to reduce carbon emissions and provide help to poor countries coping with climateÃÂ ...
The Reality-Based Community
March 2, 2017
On Tuesday I spoke at the University of Maryland memorial service for my teacher and friend Tom Schelling, who died last year at the age of 95.
The Diamondback
February 28, 2017
... United States and Soviet Union that the two countries used for rational conversation." After the memorial service, people gathered for a reception in Marie Mount Hall.
DailyO
January 20, 2017
As Thomas C Schelling, the Nobel laureate in economics and author of the book The Strategy of Conflict , underlined: "We have learned that a threat has to be credible to be efficacious, and that its credibility may depend on the costs and risks ...
Doorbraak.be
January 7, 2017
The Strategy of Conflict van Thomas C. Schelling. 'Veel mensen hebben een eng beeld van economie. Bij dit boek zullen velen hun ogen openen. Ik vind Schelling de meest originele moderne econoom. Ooit heb ik aan hem een column gewijd om uit teÃÂ ...
CSS Resources (blog)
January 6, 2017
Noble Laureate Thomas Schelling died last month. Anyone who cares about strategy and specifically the strategy of conflict knows that he was a giant in these fields.
Hindu Business Line
January 4, 2017
The big daddy of behavioural economics is Thomas C Schelling, who won the Nobel in 2005. He did some pioneering work on "the intimate contest for self-command" - that's the struggle we all face when we have to choose between losing weight andÃÂ ...
War on the Rocks
December 28, 2016
Thomas C. Schelling: A Reminiscence. Robert Jervis. December 28, 2016. schelling-2. Related Articles. The Russians Read our Cold War Playbook ÷ A Cold War Execution Most Foul?
War on the Rocks
December 27, 2016
Thomas C. Schelling: A Reminiscence. Robert Jervis. December 28, 2016. schelling-2. Related Articles. The Russians Read our Cold War Playbook ÷ A Cold War Execution Most Foul?
The Boston Globe
December 18, 2016
Thomas C. Schelling, a former longtime professor at Harvard University and the Kennedy School of Government whose insights on group and personal behaviors spanned many disciplines and were credited with reducing the risk of nuclear war, diedÃÂ ...
New York Times
December 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 social problems, including white flight from urban ...
Yale News
November 9, 2016
Previous Stimson Lectures have included "Political Order in Changing Societies" by Samuel P. Huntington; "Financial Crises in Emerging Markets" by Alexandre Lamfalussy; "Arms and Influence" by Thomas C. Schelling; "The Arab Center, The Promise ofÃÂ ...
The National Interest Online
October 31, 2016
In essence, the United States - to use Thomas C. Schelling's image - "threw the steering wheel out of the car" in a deliberate attempt to tie its hands so that a Soviet conventional attack on Western Europe would have escalated virtually automatically ...
Kashmir Images
October 2, 2016
This is how Thomas C. Schelling has articulated the inherent unpredictability of the outcome of a battle between - say a state and its people.
The Express Tribune
September 16, 2016
Thomas C Schelling, winner of the Nobel Prize for economics in 2005, in his seminal work on strategy of conflict and the 'nuclear game' took economics beyond the more mundane pre-occupation with the economics of war and national security that grabbedÃÂ ...
CSS Resources (blog)
September 14, 2016
Thomas C Schelling, The Strategy of Conflict (Cambridge (Mass.): Harvard University, 1980), 4. Mohammed M. Hafez and Joseph M. Hatfield, "Do Targeted Assassinations Work?
Marianas Variety
August 31, 2016
Before teaching at UCLA's Luskin School for Public Affairs, Kleiman taught at the Harvard Kennedy School, served as a Visiting Professor at the University of Virginia Batten School and Harvard Law School, and as the first Thomas C. Schelling Professor ...
The Boston Globe
July 18, 2016
NEW YORK - Howard Raiffa, an economics professor whose mathematical formulas for decision making were applied to the search for a missing nuclear bomb and the siting of a Mexico City airport, and were even suggested as a way to resolve a strike byÃÂ ...
The Boston Globe
July 18, 2016
NEW YORK - Howard Raiffa, an economics professor whose mathematical formulas for decision making were applied to the search for a missing nuclear bomb and the siting of a Mexico City airport, and were even suggested as a way to resolve a strike byÃÂ ...
Northwestern University NewsCenter
February 23, 2016
EVANSTON, Ill. --- Northwestern University alumnus Seth Meyers, the host of NBC's "Late Night" talk show and one of the nation's best-known comedians, is among the five distinguished individuals who will be recognized with honorary degrees at theÃÂ ...
ArmsControlWonk.com
January 26, 2016
(Aspiring wonks: to capture the spirit and intellectual ferment of this time, I continue to recommend two books, both published in 1961: Thomas C. Schelling and Morton H. Halperin's Strategy and Arms Control, and Donald G. Brennan's edited volume ArmsÃÂ ...
ArmsControlWonk.com
January 26, 2016
(Aspiring wonks: to capture the spirit and intellectual ferment of this time, I continue to recommend two books, both published in 1961: Thomas C. Schelling and Morton H. Halperin's Strategy and Arms Control, and Donald G. Brennan's edited volume ArmsÃÂ ...
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