Interview: Thomas Schelling discusses game theory winning the Nobel economics prize

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ROBERT SIEGEL
All Things Considered (NPR)
10-10-2005
Interview: Thomas Schelling discusses game theory winning the Nobel economics prize

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The winners of the 2005 Nobel Prize in economics were announced today: Robert Aumann of Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Thomas Schelling of the University of Maryland. The two men did not work together, but they both contributed to the advancement of game theory as a system for understanding economic conflicts, and that is what the ...

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