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Schelling, Thomas C., 1921-2016

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Personal name headingSchelling, Thomas C., 1921-2016
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Variant(s)Schelling, T. C. (Thomas C.), 1921-2016
Birth date1921-04-14
Death date2016-12-13
Place of birthOakland (Calif.)
Place of deathBethesda (Md.)
Field of activityEconomics Game theory Nuclear warfare Social problems
AffiliationUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)
University of Maryland at College Park
Harvard University
Yale University
Profession or occupationNobel Prize winners
Economists College teachers
Found inHis National income behavior, 1951.
His The stability of total disarmament, 1961: t.p. (T.C. Schelling)
Organising to cope with global warming, 2009: p. 3 of cover (2005 Nobel Prize in econ.)
Information from 678 converted Dec. 11, 2014 (Ph.D.)
New York times WWW site, viewed Dec. 14, 2016 (in obituary published Dec. 13: Thomas C. Schelling; b. Thomas Crombie Schelling, Apr. 14, 1921, Oakland, Calif.; d. Tuesday [Dec. 13, 2016], Bethesda, Md., aged 95; 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)
Associated languageeng