Editing Thomas Schelling (section)

==Biography==
===Early years===
Schelling was born on April 14, 1921, in [[Oakland, California]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economic-sciences/laureates/2005/schelling-facts.html|title=Thomas C. Schelling – Facts|website=www.nobelprize.org|publisher=[[Nobel Foundation]]|access-date=December 13, 2016}}</ref> He graduated from [[San Diego High School]]. He received his [[bachelor's degree]] in economics from the [[University of California, Berkeley]], in 1944 and received his [[PhD]] in economics from [[Harvard University]] in 1951.

===Career===
Schelling served with the [[Marshall Plan]] in [[Europe]], the [[White House]], and the [[Executive Office of the President of the United States|Executive Office of the President]] from 1948 to 1953.<ref name=cv>{{cite web|title=Curriculum Vitae: Thomas C. Schelling |url=http://www.puaf.umd.edu/facstaff/faculty/SchellingCV.htm |publisher=University of Maryland School of Public Policy |year=2008 |access-date=2008-09-18 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070703115122/http://www.puaf.umd.edu/facstaff/faculty/SchellingCV.htm |archive-date=July 3, 2007}}</ref> He wrote most of his dissertation on national income behavior working at night while in Europe. He left government to join the economics faculty at [[Yale University]].

In 1956, "he joined the [[RAND Corporation]] as an adjunct fellow, becoming a full-time researcher for a year after leaving Yale, and returning to adjunct status through 2002."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rand.org/news/announcements/2005/10/11.html|title=Nobel Committee Honors Former RAND Economist Thomas Schelling|website=www.rand.org|language=en|access-date=2017-11-16}}</ref> In 1958 Schelling was appointed professor of economics at Harvard. That same year, he "co-founded the Center for International Affairs, which was [later] renamed the [[Weatherhead Center for International Affairs]]."<ref name=":2">{{Cite news|url=https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2016/12/thomas-schelling-game-theory-pioneer-95/|title=Thomas Schelling, Nobelist and game theory pioneer, 95|date=2016-12-14|work=Harvard Gazette|access-date=2017-11-16|language=en-US}}</ref>

In 1969, Schelling joined Harvard's [[John F. Kennedy School of Government]], where he was the Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Political Economy.<ref name="cv" /> He was among the "founding fathers" of the "modern" Kennedy School, as he helped to shift the curriculum's emphasis away from administration and more toward leadership.<ref name=":2" />

Between 1994 and 1999, he conducted research at the [[International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis]] (IIASA), in [[Laxenburg]], [[Austria]].

In 1990, he left Harvard and joined the [[University of Maryland School of Public Policy]] and the University of Maryland Department of Economics.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=http://publicpolicy.umd.edu/newsroom/faculty/memory-thomas-schelling|title=In Memory of Thomas Schelling|last=Campbell|first=Megan|date=December 13, 2016|website=publicpolicy.umd.edu|publisher=[[University of Maryland School of Public Policy]]|access-date=December 13, 2016|archive-date=December 31, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161231094501/https://www.publicpolicy.umd.edu/newsroom/faculty/memory-thomas-schelling|url-status=dead}}</ref> In 1991, he accepted the presidency of the [[American Economic Association]], an organization of which he was also a Distinguished Fellow.<ref name=":3">{{Cite web|url=https://www.eur.nl/eur/universitaireplechtigheden/diesnatalis/archief_dies_natalis/2003/schelling/|title=Honorary Doctorate for professor Thomas C. Schelling|date=2014-09-29|website=www.eur.nl|language=nl|others=Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam|access-date=2017-11-16|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171117072840/https://www.eur.nl/eur/universitaireplechtigheden/diesnatalis/archief_dies_natalis/2003/schelling/|archive-date=November 17, 2017|df=mdy-all}}</ref>

In 1995, he accepted the presidency of the Eastern Economic Association.<ref name=":4">{{Cite web|url=http://www.necsi.edu/faculty/schelling.html|title=Thomas C. Schelling {{!}} NECSI|website=www.necsi.edu|access-date=2017-11-16}}</ref>

Schelling was a contributing participant of the [[Copenhagen Consensus]].<ref name=cv /><ref>{{cite web|title=Thomas Schelling|url=http://www.copenhagenconsensus.com/expert/thomas-schelling|website=Copenhagen Consensus|access-date=16 January 2016}}</ref>