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	Thomas Schelling - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Thomas Crombie Schelling (born 14 April 1921) is an American economist and professor of foreign affairs, national security, nuclear strategy, and arms control at the University of Maryland, College Park School of Public Policy.
		Schelling's most famous book, The Strategy of Conflict (1960), has pioneered the study of bargaining and strategic behavior and is considered one of the hundred books that have been most influential in the West since 1945.
		Schelling previously taught for twenty years at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, where he was the Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Political Economy, as well as conducted research at IIASA, in Laxenburg, Austria between 1994 and 1999.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thomas_Schelling (835 words)

	Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The antagonism certainly was not then a new fact; the Erlangen lectures on the history of philosophy of 1822 express the same in a pointed fashion, and Schelling had already begun the treatment of mythology and religion which in his view constituted the true positive complements to the negative of logical or speculative philosophy.
		Schelling was prematurely thrust into the position of a foremost productive thinker; and when the lengthened period of quiet meditation was at last forced upon him, there unfortunately lay before him a system which achieved what had dimly been involved in his ardent and impetuous desires.
		But Schelling did not merely borrow, he had genuine philosophic spirit and no small measure of philosophic insight, and under all the differences of exposition which seem to constitute so many differing systems, there is one and the same philosophic effort and spirit.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Friedrich_Wilhelm_Joseph_von_Schelling (2613 words)

	Did Thomas C. Schelling Invent the Madman Theory?
		Schelling showed that a party can strengthen its position by overtly worsening its own options, that the capability to retaliate can be more useful than the ability to resist an attack, and that uncertain retaliation is more credible and more efficient than certain retaliation.
		Schelling called this policy the “rationality of irrationality.” In this policy, the foe would believe in your self-destructive threats not because it thought you might slip on a banana peel, so to speak, at the brink but because it believed you just might be lunatic enough to go over the edge deliberately.
		In the late fifties, Schelling, Morgenstern, Kissinger, and Ellsberg (as well as others) were part of a circle of strategic thinkers centered at Harvard and RAND who were concerned mainly with the problem of the instability of the nuclear arms race and nuclear deterrence.5 They recognized, analyzed, understood, and criticized the irrationality theory.
	hnn.us /articles/17183.html (1670 words)

	Harvard Gazette: FAS, Kennedy School luminary wins Nobel Prize
		Schelling was a professor of economics at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) from 1958 to 1991.
		Schelling is also considered one of the "founding fathers" of the Kennedy School of Government, having been one of the core group of Harvard faculty recruited to help establish the School.
		Schelling's framework showed that a party can strengthen its position by overtly worsening its own options, that the capability to retaliate can be more useful than the ability to resist an attack, and that uncertain retaliation is more credible and more efficient than certain retaliation.
	www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/2005/10.13/05-nobel.html (937 words)

	Thomas Schelling: games of enlightenment Tim Harford - openDemocracy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Schelling ditched the mathematics of his peers and applied the rigorous thinking of game theory to a richer world in which the superpowers tried to understand the tacit signals behind each others' threats and promises.
		Schelling emphasised the importance of pre-commitments, taboos and lines in the sand, helping to establish the convention that nuclear weapons could never be used in a situation like Vietnam.
		Thomas Schelling is a great communicator of economic ideas; many would say he is the great communicator.
	www.opendemocracy.net /people/schelling_2923.jsp (1087 words)

	Maryland Newsline - Schools
		Schelling, 84, a professor emeritus at the University of Maryland with the School of Public Policy and the Department of Economics, was still asleep.
		Schelling was a committee member on his dissertation on government regulation of smoking in 1996.
		Schelling, who taught his last classes at the university in the spring, now starts his day by reading the newspaper for one hour at breakfast.
	www.newsline.umd.edu /schools/nobelmarylander101105.htm (726 words)

	Cornell College: Phi Beta Kappa Society Visiting Scholar
		Professor Schelling is Distinguished University Professor in the department of economics and the School of Public Affairs at the University of Maryland.
		Schelling will be available during the day and evening on Monday and Tuesday (Nov. 1 and 2) to meet with classes and with informal groups of students and faculty.
		Biographical Sketch: Thomas C. Schelling is Distinguished University Professor in the department of economics and the School of Public Affairs at the University of Maryland.
	www.cornellcollege.edu /phi_beta_kappa/1999-visiting_scholar.htm (373 words)

	Region Focus Spring 2005: Interview - Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
		Thomas Schelling's early research was common fare for economists in the 1950s.
		Schelling has continued to publish on military strategy and arms control throughout his career, but his work has led him to a number of other seemingly disparate issues, such as racial segregation, organized crime, and environmental policy.
		Schelling: I started working on that subject in the 1970s when I was asked to join a committee of the National Academy of Sciences on substance abuse and habitual behavior.
	www.richmondfed.org /publications/economic_research/region_focus/spring_2005/interview.cfm (5450 words)

	Freakonomics Blog » Nobel Prize winner Thomas Schelling
		Thomas Schelling winning the Nobel prize in economics finally gave me a reason to open the box.
		Schelling was an early inspiration to me. His course and writings were one of the big influences pushing me towards economics.
		Schelling was one of the recent winners of Nobel Prize in Economics.
	www.freakonomics.com /blog/2005/10/20/nobel-prize-winner-thomas-schelling (1136 words)

	All Pain, No Gain By Fred Kaplan
		Schelling made his mark in 1960 with a book called The Strategy of Conflict, in which he applied principles of bargaining to the practice of war.
		Schelling's answer was to retaliate "in a punitive sense" by "putting pressure on the Russians" through "limited or graduated reprisals," inflicting "civilian pain and the threat of more"—in short by sending signals with force, upping the ante in the bargaining round, intimidating them into backing down.
		Schelling's lessons can be seen clearly in the classified memorandums reproduced in The Pentagon Papers, the top-secret history of the Vietnam War that Daniel Ellsberg leaked to the New York Times.
	www.slate.com /id/2127862 (1187 words)

	RAND \| Books & Publications \| Classics \| Thomas Schelling
		Thomas Schelling, recipient of the 2005 Nobel Prize in economics, had a nearly 50-year affiliation with RAND, including one year as a staff economist in the late 1950s.
		Schelling served in the Economic Cooperation Administration in Europe during the period of the Marshall Plan and also held positions in the White House and Executive Office of the President.
		Schelling's co-laureate, Robert J. Aumann, was also an adjunct researcher at RAND for a dozen years, from 1962 to 1974.
	www.rand.org /publications/classics/schelling (969 words)

	TIM HARFORD \| Thomas Schelling and the Game of Life
		Schelling was more interested in real problems: the causes of racial segregation, for example, and how people can control their addictions.
		Schelling's father and elder brother were naval officers and with his crew-cut and cartoonishly square jaw it is not hard to picture Schelling in uniform.
		But Schelling says the Kyoto protocol on climate change, which commits countries that ratify it to reducing their emissions of greenhouse gases, is unworkable because no country will be willing to punish those who fail to cut such emissions.
	www.timharford.com /favourites/gameoflife.htm (1480 words)

	Online NewsHour: Nobel Prize Winner Discusses Game Theory -- October 11, 2005
		Thomas Schelling is 84 and the author of numerous books exploring strategy and decision-making.
		THOMAS SCHELLING: The simplest explanation is that game theory is the study of any situation in which two or more people make decisions that impinge on each other.
		THOMAS SCHELLING: I figured that when -- when the committee began giving prizes to people in their 50s, and I was in my 80s, if they really wanted ever to give me the prize, they'd better hurry up.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/economy/july-dec05/schelling_10-11.html (1089 words)

	pasta and vinegar: Schelling's Focal Point (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Schelling (1960) described the problem face by two non-communicating persons who wish to meet at a common location.
		After Schelling, Alpern (1976) developed two models of this problem in which he replaced the notions of focal points and culture by coordination principles.
		Schelling (1960: 54-58) again offers a framework for analysis by offering powerful evidence for the existence of focal points in social life.
	tecfa.unige.ch /perso/staf/nova/blog/archives/000350.html (572 words)

	University of Maryland Economist Wins Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics :: University Communications Newsdesk, ...
		Schelling, emeritus distinguished university professor in the Department of Economics and the School of Public Policy, has published highly influential works in a number of areas including nuclear proliferation and arms control, terrorism, organized crime, energy and environmental policy, climate change and racial segregation.
		Schelling says he remains optimistic that an unwritten taboo against the use of nuclear weapons may continue to hold, even amid the pressures of nuclear proliferation, just as it has for 60 years.
		Schelling has applied these same principles in other contexts as well, for example, looking at the strategy and tactics of bargaining and negotiation involved in industrial and labor conflict.
	www.newsdesk.umd.edu /sociss/release.cfm?ArticleID=1145 (873 words)

	Copenhagen Consensus 2004 – addresses 10 major challenges in the world. - Thomas Schelling
		Schelling came to the Maryland School of Public Affairs after twenty years at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, where he was the Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Political Economy.
		He served in the Economic Cooperation Administration in Europe, and has held positions in the White House and Executive Office of the President, Yale University, the RAND Corporation and the Department of Economics and Center for International Affairs at Harvard University.
		Schelling has published on military strategy and arms control, energy and environmental policy, climate change, nuclear proliferation, terrorism, organized crime, foreign aid and international trade, conflict and bargaining theory, racial segregation and integration, the military draft, health policy, tobacco and drugs policy, and ethical issues in public policy and in business.
	www.copenhagenconsensus.com /?ID=183 (273 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Business \| Game theorists share Nobel prize
		US citizen Thomas Schelling and Israeli Robert Aumann have won the 2005 Nobel prize in economics for their work in an area known as game theory.
		Professor Schelling, 84, a US citizen, is distinguished university professor at the Department of Economics and the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland, and emeritus professor of political economy at Harvard University, where he had taught for 20 years.
		Professor Schelling was among the first to apply the insights of game theory to international relations, looking at the nuclear arms race in his classic book The Strategy of Conflict.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/business/4326732.stm (705 words)

	hakank.blogg: Intervju med Thomas Schelling
		Thomas Schelling intervjuas i en lång artikel i Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Region Focus Sprint 2005.
		Schelling berättar - ofta personligt - om flera av sina studier och erfarenheter, bl.a.
		Schelling: When I first asked that question, way back in the 1950s, I was teaching at Yale.
	www.hakank.org /webblogg/archives/000968.html (424 words)

	TIM HARFORD \| How an economic theory beat the atomic bomb
		Game theory was - before Mr Schelling - the mathematical analysis of interdependent decisions: whether a union calls a strike depends on whether the union leaders think the management will respond with a better pay offer; whether I bluff at poker depends on whether I think you are likely to call the bluff.
		Mr Schelling ditched the mathematics of his peers and applied the rigorous thinking of game theory to a richer world in which the superpowers tried to understand the tacit signals behind each others' threats and promises.
		Nor is Mr Schelling limited to matters of grave policy: he has studied efficient ways for criminal gangs to extort money, the problem of ever-expanding Christmas-card lists and how to find a travelling companion after being separated in a strange city.
	www.timharford.com /favourites/schelling.htm (683 words)

	Bloomberg.com: Europe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Aumann, 75, and Schelling, 84, were honored for their contribution to understanding why ``some groups of individuals, organizations and countries succeed in promoting cooperation while others suffer from conflict,'' the Stockholm-based Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, which selects the winner, said today on the Nobel Web site.
		Schelling's ``insights have proven to be of great relevance for conflict resolution and efforts to avoid war,'' the academy said.
		Schelling said he had just finished the coursework for his doctorate when a friend asked that Schelling take his place in an assignment in Paris to help carry out the Marshall Plan.
	www.bloomberg.com /apps/news?pid=10000085&sid=aSzbQzKSfUjs&refer=europe (929 words)

	Emergent Chaos: Thomas Schelling, Nobel Laureate
		Schelling, amongst many accomplishments which Tyler Cowan discusses here, put forth the notion that there are questions with answers which are correct because those...
		Schelling, amongst many accomplishments which Tyler Cowan discusses here, put forth the notion that there are questions with answers which are correct because those are the answers everyone would choose.
		Thomas Schelling and Robert Aumann won this year's Nobel Prize in Economics for "having enhanced our understanding of conflict and cooperation through game-theory analysis." See Adam's blog for an explanation of Schelling points, which I was to learn a...
	www.emergentchaos.com /archives/001802.html (496 words)

	Retired U-Md. Economist Wins Nobel
		Thomas C. Schelling, 84, who retired from the university in 2003, won the award with mathematician Robert J. Aumann, 75, who retired in 2001 from Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, for their analyses of how individuals, countries and businesses make decisions while anticipating the likely response by others.
		For Thomas C. Schelling, winning the Nobel Prize in economics yesterday capped a half-century of study of the dynamics of relations between and among people and nations.
		Schelling also is well known for a 1971 article analyzing how racially mixed communities can suddenly become segregated as the proportion of residents of one race gradually slides below a certain critical level, or "tipping" point, the Swedish academy noted.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/10/AR2005101000188.html (682 words)

	Harvard University Press: Choice and Consequence
		Thomas Schelling is a political economist "conspicuous for wandering" an errant economist.
		With an ingenious, often startling approach Schelling brings new perspectives to problems ranging from drug abuse, abortion, and the value people put on their lives to organized crime, airplane hijacking, and automobile safety.
		Thomas C. Schelling is Distinguished University Professor, Department of Economics and School of Public Policy, University of Maryland and Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Political Economy, Emeritus, Harvard University.
	www.hup.harvard.edu /catalog/SCHCHY.html (274 words)

	Thomas Schelling - SourceWatch
		Thomas C. Schelling, Professor of Economics, Emeritus, of Harvard University, is an eminent economic theorist whose work has focused on strategy and conflict.
		Schelling is a Former president (1991) of the American Economic Association.
		Thomas C. Schelling, Greenhouse Effect (http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/GreenhouseEffect.html), Library of Economics and Liberty, accessed March 2004.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Thomas_Schelling (384 words)

	BCSIA - Publication - Schelling Helped Stop the Cold War Turning Very Hot
		This puzzle, and others like it, appear in the pages of several awe-inspiring books by Thomas Schelling, an 84-year-old American, who last Monday won the Nobel Prize for economics, with Robert J Aumann, for his work on game theory in the 1950s and 60s.
		Schelling's genius was not in the mathematical proof of the theory, but in brilliantly communicating its relevance to real world issues.
		Schelling moved on to explain the dynamics of tackling global warming, quitting smoking, urban segregation, and many other fascinating issues.
	bcsia.ksg.harvard.edu /publication.cfm?program=CORE&ctype=article&item_id=1301 (1031 words)

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