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Aumann and Schelling won Nobel in Economics

Aumann and Schelling won Nobel in Economics# Economics - 经济

z*e2005-10-10 07:10

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so this year is game theory again. Don't remember much about Schelling, but
really admired Aumann when I was in grad school. His paper on Common Knowledge
is one of the best econ paper I have ever read.

k*g2005-10-10 07:10

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I always thought he is a political scientist before I read today that he won
the nobel prize of economics.
He wrote a lot about war, nuclear deterance and proliferatoin, conflict and
bargaining, etc. His papers about nuclear deterance have a great impact on the
IR literature during the Cold War....

c*y2005-10-10 07:10

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You read Shelling and thought he was a political scientist?
I admire him more for his work on micromotives and macrobehavior, in which he
shows how small actions can lead to large consequences. Speaks well to the
complex system theory.
Aumann is an extremely interesting person. He says his research center has all
the rationality there is in Israel.

the

【在 k***g 的大作中提到】

: I always thought he is a political scientist before I read today that he won
: the nobel prize of economics.
: He wrote a lot about war, nuclear deterance and proliferatoin, conflict and
: bargaining, etc. His papers about nuclear deterance have a great impact on the
: IR literature during the Cold War....

k*g2005-10-10 07:10

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呵呵，说他是政治学家也没什么意外的啊，他曾经在肯尼迪政府学院供职，也在政治学的
核心刊物譬如World Politcs, International Security,Foreign Affairs上发表过不少
文章，Jack Snyder等人编的Essential Readings of World Politics 第七章 War and
Strife，把他的文章和冯·克劳塞维茨，R. Jervis, M. Doyle, K. Waltz的文章收录在
一起，作为政治学的课本，所以说他是政治学家也不为过。呵呵，1985年他还被Nobel
Symposium邀请去做关于裁军的Presentation，这篇文章后来改写过发表在Foreign
Affairs上（“What Went Wrong With Arms Control?”），也是国际安全领域的经典之
一吧，他得奖的原因不也是"for having enhanced our understanding of conflict and
cooperation through game-theory analysis"么？

he
a

【在 c********y 的大作中提到】

: You read Shelling and thought he was a political scientist?
: I admire him more for his work on micromotives and macrobehavior, in which he
: shows how small actions can lead to large consequences. Speaks well to the
: complex system theory.
: Aumann is an extremely interesting person. He says his research center has all
: the rationality there is in Israel.
:
: the

c*y2005-10-10 07:10

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Well, we are all social scientists so nothing prevents an economist from
publshing in polisci journals, or a political scientist publshing in econ
journals (although the latter occurs much more rarely). But I'm sure Shelling
would regard himself as primarily an economist. Doug North also has articles
in political science journals, but does anyone regard him as a political
scientist? His influence in polisci is at least as great as that in econ. Or
take Mancur Olson. He's probably more influentia

【在 k***g 的大作中提到】

: 呵呵，说他是政治学家也没什么意外的啊，他曾经在肯尼迪政府学院供职，也在政治学的
: 核心刊物譬如World Politcs, International Security,Foreign Affairs上发表过不少
: 文章，Jack Snyder等人编的Essential Readings of World Politics 第七章 War and
: Strife，把他的文章和冯·克劳塞维茨，R. Jervis, M. Doyle, K. Waltz的文章收录在
: 一起，作为政治学的课本，所以说他是政治学家也不为过。呵呵，1985年他还被Nobel
: Symposium邀请去做关于裁军的Presentation，这篇文章后来改写过发表在Foreign
: Affairs上（“What Went Wrong With Arms Control?”），也是国际安全领域的经典之
: 一吧，他得奖的原因不也是"for having enhanced our understanding of conflict and
: cooperation through game-theory analysis"么？
:

k*g2005-10-10 07:10

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hhehe, i've never met him before so i am not sure how he would regard himself
-)
I just explain why i think he could be called polisci-ist. North and Olson
are different. Their impacts in polisci largely come from polisci-ists'
application of their works. Their contributions to polisci are more like those
of Williamson (for his organizational economics), Hotelling (for his spatial
model) or Samuelson (for his internatoinal political economy). All these guys
are not directly involved in polisci,