Reinhard Selten | |
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Reinhard Selten, 2001 | |
| Born | Reinhard Justus Reginald Selten 5 October 1930 |
| Died | 23 August 2016 (aged 85) Poznań, Poland |
| Nationality | German |
| Alma mater | Goethe University Frankfurt |
| Known for | Game theory |
| Awards | Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (1994) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Economics |
| Institutions | University of Bonn |
| Doctoral advisor | Ewald Burger Wolfgang Franz |
| Doctoral students | Eric van Damme |
| Influenced | Axel Ockenfels Benny Moldovanu Abdolkarim Sadrieh |
Reinhard Justus Reginald Selten (5 October 1930 – 23 August 2016) was a German economist. He won the 1994 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (shared with John Harsanyi and John Nash). He is also well known for his work in bounded rationality and can be thought as one of the founding fathers of experimental economics. Selten was professor emeritus at the University of Bonn, Germany.
He was elected a member of the Academia Europaea in 1990.
Selten, who was partly Jewish, died on 23 August 2016 in Poznań, Poland, aged 85.
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