Reinhard Selten
Reinhard Selten · Philosophy & Social Sciences
Nobel laureate in economics (1994) for pioneering game theory; Jewish father, survived the war in Germany
1930, Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland) — 2016, Poznań, Poland
Germany
Reinhard Selten is recognized among Jewish contributors to Philosophy & Social Sciences — Nobel laureate in economics (1994) for pioneering game theory; Jewish father, survived the war in Germany
Reinhard Selten was the son of a Jewish father and grew up in Nazi Germany, where his family faced persecution and he survived the war years amid great hardship. He became an economist at the University of Bonn and refined game theory by defining which strategic equilibria are truly credible, introducing the concept of 'subgame perfect' equilibrium for situations that unfold in stages. This sharpened the tools economists use to analyze competition and bargaining, and he shared the 1994 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences.
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Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish Nobel Prize winners in Economics
Nobel laureate in economics (1994) for pioneering game theory; Jewish father, survived the war in Germany
Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish Nobel Prize winners in Economics
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