John Harsanyi
John Harsanyi
John Charles Harsanyiwas a Hungarian-American economist and Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences winner...
NationalityHungarian
ProfessionEconomist
Date of Birth29 May 1920
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After preliminary work by a number of other distinguished mathematicians and economists, game theory as a systematic theory started with von Neumann and Morgenstern's book, 'Theory of Games and Economic Behavior,' published in 1944.
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In 1958, Anne and I returned to Australia, where I got a very attractive research position at the Australian National University in Canberra. But soon I felt very isolated because at that time game theory was virtually unknown in Australia.
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It is our common experience as human beings that the results of social forces seem to admit only of 'probabilistic' predictions.