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John C. Harsanyi was an author who produced eleven works, including "Game theory, experience, rationality" and "A general theory of equilibrium selection in games." His other publications include "Decisiones normativas en los campos de la ética, el estado y el derecho" and "Essays on ethics, social behavior, and scientific explanation." He is also associated with John F. Nash Jr., Reinhard Selten, Robert J. Aumann, and Thomas C. Schelling.
Born on 1920-05-29, Harsanyi died on 2000-08-09. He received one Nobel Prize and was recognized in the Nobel Economics collection. Additionally, he was recognized in the American Academy Arts Sciences collection. His Erdős number is 8.
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- Works
- 11
Top works
- Decisiones normativas en los campos de la ética, el estado y el derecho
- Game theory, experience, rationality
- John C. Harsanyi, John F. Nash Jr., Reinhard Selten, Robert J. Aumann and Thomas C. Schelling
- Essays on ethics, social behavior, and scientific explanation
- A general theory of equilibrium selection in games
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
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Quotes
- “If somebody prefers an income distribution more favorable to the poor for the sole reason that he is poor himself, this can hardly be considered as a genuine value judgment on social welfare.”
- “If two objects or human beings show similar behaviour in all their relevant aspects open to observation, the assumption of some unobservable hidden difference between them must be regarded as a completely gratuitous hypothesis and one contrary to sound scientific method.”
- “Game theory is a theory of strategic interaction. That is to say, it is a theory of rational behavior in social situations in which each player has to choose his moves on the basis of what he thinks the other players’ countermoves are likely to be.”
- “In November 1944 the Nazi authorities finally decided to deport my labor unit from Budapest to an Austrian concentration camp, where most of my comrades eventually perished. But I was lucky enough to make my escape from the railway station in Budapest, just before our train left for Austria. Then a Jesuit father I had known gave me refuge in the cellar of their monastery.”
- “My interest in game-theoretic problems in a narrower sense was first aroused by John Nash's four brilliant papers, published in the period 1950-53, on cooperative and on noncooperative games, on two-person bargaining games and on mutually optimal threat strategies in such games, and on what we now call Nash equilibria.”
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Key facts
- Born
- János Károly Harsányi , ( 1920-05-29 ) May 29, 1920, Budapest , Hungary
- Died
- August 9, 2000 (2000-08-09) (aged 80), Berkeley, California , U.S.
- Citizenship
- Hungary United States
- Alma mater
- University of Lyon , University of Budapest , University of Sydney , Stanford University
- Known for
- Bayesian games , Utilitarian ethics , Equilibrium selection
- Spouse
- Anne Klauber
- Awards
- Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (1994), John von Neumann Award
- Fields
- Economics
- Institutions
- University of California, Berkeley , Wayne State University , Australian National University , University of Queensland
- Doctoral advisor
- Kenneth Arrow
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Nobel Prize
- The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel1994
“for their pioneering analysis of equilibria in the theory of non-cooperative games”
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Encyclopedic overview
John Charles Harsanyi (Hungarian: Harsányi János Károly; May 29, 1920 – August 9, 2000) was a Hungarian-American economist who spent most of his career at the University of California, Berkeley. He was the recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1994.
Harsanyi 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 (specifically utilitarian ethics) 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 Economic Sciences.
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