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Reinhard Selten

  Reinhard Selten shared the 1994 Nobel Prize in economics with John Nash and john harsanyi “for their pioneering analysis of equilibria in the theory of non-cooperative games.” One problem with various Nash equilibria is that they are not always unique. Selten applied stronger conditions to reduce the number of possible equilibria and to eliminate […]

Lawrence Robert Klein

Lawrence R. Klein received the Nobel Prize in 1980 for “the creation of economic models and their application to the analysis of economic fluctuations and economic policies.” Klein began model building while still a graduate student. After getting his Ph.D. from MIT, he moved on to the Cowles Commission for Research in Economics, which was […]

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