John C. Harsanyi (1920-2000)

Awarded the Prize “for his pioneering analysis of equilibria in the theory of non-cooperative games.”

American economist. Harsanyi was born on May 29, 1920 in Budapest, Hungary. He received his doctorate in 1947 at Budapest University. In 1950, he went to Australia gained his M.A. in 1953 from Sydney University. In 1956 he went to Stanford University on a Rockefeller fellowship, where he got his Ph.D. in 1959. He briefly returned to Australia until he emigrated to the United States, where he settled as Professor of Business Administration Economics at the University of California, Berkeley in 1964, remaining there until his retirement in 1990. Harsanyi died on August 9, 2000 at Berkeley, California.
Major Works:
Rational Behavior Bargaining Equilibrium in Games Social Situations (1977); Essays on Ethics, Social Behavior, Scientific Explanation (1976); Papers in Game