Thomas Schelling

Also known as Thomas Crombie Schelling, Thomas C. Schelling

American economist (1921-2016)

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Thomas Schelling was an American economist who developed influential theories about conflict, negotiation, and strategic decision-making, particularly in the context of the Cold War. His work on how adversaries can communicate and reach agreements despite conflicting interests has had lasting impact on economics, international relations, and policy-making.

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The Strategy of Conflict in Governance
National Income Behavior

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Country: US
Active from: 1876-07-26
Active to: 1939-12-08

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Analysis of Relative Gene Expression Data Using Real-Time Quantitative PCR and the 2−ΔΔCT Method
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The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews
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STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner
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UCSF Chimera—A visualization system for exploratory research and analysis
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“The essence of these tactics is some voluntary but irreversible sacrifice of freedom of choice. They rest on the paradox that the power to constrain an adversary may depend on the power to bind oneself; that, in bargaining, weakness is often strength, freedom may be freedom to capitulate, and to burn bridges behind one may suffice to undo an opponent.”
“By "market" is meant the entire complex of institutions within which people buy and sell and hire and are hired and borrow and lend and trade and contract and shop around to find bargains.”
“There is a distinction between an individual life and a statistical life. Let a 6-year-old girl with brown hair need thousands of dollars for an operation that will prolong her life until Christmas, and the post office will be swamped with nickels and dimes to save her. But let it be reported that without a sales tax the hospital facilities of Massachusetts will deteriorate and cause a barely perceptible increase in preventable deaths—not many will drop a tear or reach for their checkbooks.”
“The most spectacular event of the past half century is one that did not occur. We have enjoyed sixty years without nuclear weapons exploded in anger.”
“Arms control is so often identified with limitations on the possession or deployment of weapons that it is often overlooked that this reciprocated investment in non-nuclear capability was a remarkable instance of unacknowledged but reciprocated arms control.”
“The next possessors of nuclear weapons may be Iran, North Korea, or possibly some terrorist bodies. Is there any hope that they will have absorbed the nearly universal inhibition against the use of nuclear weapons, or will at least be inhibited by the recognition that the taboo enjoys widespread acclaim?”

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Commons category: Thomas Schelling
date of birth: 1921-04-14
date of death: 2016-12-13
name in native language: Thomas Crombie Schelling

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Thomas Crombie Schelling (April 14, 1921 – December 13, 2016) was an American economist and professor of foreign policy, national security, nuclear strategy, and arms control at the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland, College Park. He was also co-faculty at the New England Complex Systems Institute.

Schelling was awarded the 2005 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (shared with Robert Aumann) for "having enhanced our understanding of conflict and cooperation through game theory analysis."