John Harsanyi
Hungarian-American economist and philosopher (1920–2000)
Biography
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.
He moved to the United States in 1956, and spent most of his life there. According to György Marx, he was one of The Martians.
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Career highlights
Employers / organisations
- University of California, Berkeley
- Wayne State University
- Australian National University
- University of Queensland
Awards & honours (6)
- Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
- John von Neumann Award
- Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association
- Fellow of the Econometric Society
- honorary doctor of the Renmin University of China
- honorary doctor of Caen University
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- John Harsanyi was born on May 29, 1920.
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- John Harsanyi was born in Budapest.
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