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...destroy,” he added. Dillon Professor of Government Graham T. Allison ’62, who is also a former KSG dean and the director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, took a class with Schelling as an undergraduate while at Harvard. He called Schelling??s presentation “brilliant and provocative.” Audience member Fiona S. Cunningham ’09 said she enjoyed the lecture and that Schelling was “very objective without being dispassionate...
...While “Micromotives,” republished this year, is certainly a worthwhile read, it is rather limited in scope. Schelling??the former Littauer professor of political economy at the Kennedy School of Government—clearly explains many forms of collective behavior; however, because he does not directly address the social implications of that behavior, the book is not as interesting as it could have been...
...neighborhood—clearly illustrate the concepts, they do not feel as relevant as they did in the late seventies. It is true that such events are important, but they are no longer attention-grabbing front page news. An in-depth discussion of nuclear proliferation, the topic of Schelling??s Nobel Prize lecture (included in the new edition), would have been more entertaining...
...night at a forum celebrating his achievements. Schelling, the Littauer professor of political economy, emeritus, earned the Nobel for his application of game theory to the economics of conflict and cooperation. Schelling addressed a crowd of approximately 400 students, friends, and faculty, touching on topics ranging from some of Schelling??s ground-breaking theories to their applications in the current conflict over nuclear proliferation in Iran, North Korea, Pakistan, and India. “Our policies regarding the spread of nuclear arms throughout the world are, if not disastrous, very bad,” said Schelling...
...most mundane events and apply them to other situations. “He walks around the world and everything that he sees piqued his curiosity,” Zeckhauser said. “He usually develops new insights that other people would just miss.” Among Schelling??s insights was the ability to explain the nuclear standoff with the Soviet Union as a social game of shared and conflicting interests. “His thinking in some sense infused the success that we had over a 50-year period in avoiding the nuclear...
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