Editing Thomas Schelling (section)

{{Short description|American economist (1921–2016)}}
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{{Infobox economist
| name              = Thomas Schelling
| school_tradition  =
| image             = Thomas C. Schelling (cropped).jpg
| caption           = Schelling in 2010
| birth_name        = Thomas Crombie Schelling
| birth_date        = {{Birth date|1921|04|14}}
| birth_place       = [[Oakland, California]], U.S.
| death_date        = {{Death date and age|2016|12|13|1921|04|14}}
| death_place       = [[Bethesda, Maryland]], U.S.
| institution       = [[Yale University]]<br />[[Harvard University]]<br />[[University of Maryland, College Park|University of Maryland]]<br />[[New England Complex Systems Institute]]
| field             = [[Game theory]]
| alma_mater        = [[University of California, Berkeley]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])<br />[[Harvard University]] ([[PhD]])
| doctoral_advisor  = [[Arthur Smithies]]<br />[[Wassily Leontief]]<br />[[James Duesenberry]]
| academic_advisors =
| doctoral_students = [[Michael Spence|A. Michael Spence]]<ref>{{Citation |last= Spence |first= A. Michael |date = December 8, 2001 |title= Signaling in Retrospect and the Informational Structure of Markets |publisher= [[Nobel Foundation]] |page= 407 |url= https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economic-sciences/laureates/2001/spence-lecture.pdf |access-date= Jun 8, 2017}}</ref><br />[[Eli Noam]]<ref>{{cite web | title = Eli M. Noam | url = http://www.citi.columbia.edu/elinoam/ | publisher = [[Columbia Institute for Tele-Information]] | access-date = October 16, 2016 | archive-date = December 25, 2018 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20181225070301/http://www.citi.columbia.edu/elinoam/%20 | url-status = dead }}</ref><br />[[Tyler Cowen]]
| notable_students  =
| influences        = [[Carl von Clausewitz]], [[Niccolò Machiavelli]]
| contributions     = [[Focal point (game theory)|Focal point]]<br />[[Egonomics]]
| awards            = [[The Frank E. Seidman Distinguished Award in Political Economy]] (1977)
<br/>[[Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences]] (2005)
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| repec_prefix      = e
| repec_id          = psc152
| thesis_title       = National income behavior: An introduction to algebraic analysis
| thesis_url         = https://www.proquest.com/docview/302008652/
| thesis_year        = 1951
}}

'''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 [[University of Maryland School of Public Policy|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."<ref name=":0" />