John Harsanyi
Economist, Academic
1920 – 2000
Who was John Harsanyi?
John Charles Harsanyi was a Hungarian economist and Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences winner.
He is best known for his contributions to the study of game theory and its application to economics, specifically for his developing the highly innovative analysis of games of incomplete information, so-called Bayesian games. He also made important contributions to the use of game theory and economic reasoning in political and moral philosophy as well as contributing to the study of equilibrium selection. For his work, he was a co-recipient along with John Nash and Reinhard Selten of the 1994 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics.
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- Born
- May 29, 1920
Budapest - Also known as
- John Charles Harsanyi
- John C Harsanyi
- Religion
- Atheism
- Judaism
- Ethnicity
- Hungarians
- Nationality
- Hungary
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Stanford University
- Eötvös Loránd University
- University of Sydney
- University of Lyon
- Employment
- University of California, Berkeley
- Died
- Aug 9, 2000
Berkeley
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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