Oskar Morgenstern

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Austrian-American author economist university professor

Oskar Morgenstern was an Austrian-American economist best known as the co-founder of game theory through his seminal work "Theory of Games and Economic Behavior" with John von Neumann.

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Austrian-American → author → economist → university professor →
birthCountry	German Empire →
birthDate	1902-01-24 →
birthPlace	Görlitz →
citizenship	Austria → United States of America →
coAuthor	John von Neumann →
countryOfAcademicWork	Austria → United States of America →
deathDate	1977-07-26 →
deathPlace	Princeton, New Jersey →
doctoralAdvisor	Hans Mayer →
educatedAt	University of Vienna →
employer	Princeton University → University of Vienna →
era	20th-century economics →
familyName	Morgenstern →
fieldOfWork	economic theory → economics → game theory →
fullName	Oskar Morgenstern →
givenName	Oskar →
hasAcademicDiscipline	mathematical economics →
influenced	John Nash → decision theory → game theory in economics →
influencedBy	John von Neumann → Ludwig von Mises →
knownFor	Theory of Games and Economic Behavior → co-founding game theory →
languageOfWorkOrName	English → German →
memberOf	American Economic Association → Econometric Society →
migration	emigrated from Austria to the United States →
notableIdea	application of game theory to economics → strategic interaction in markets →
notableWork	Theory of Games and Economic Behavior →
positionHeld	professor of economics →
publicationYear	1944 →
researchInterest	economic forecasting → imperfect information in markets → oligopoly theory →
theoryDeveloped	expected utility theory (with John von Neumann) →

Referenced by (8)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Harold W. Kuhn → John Nash →	influencedBy
Theory of Games and Economic Behavior →	author
John von Neumann →	coAuthor
expected utility theory →	developedBy
Econometric Society →	founder
Oskar Morgenstern →	fullName
Morgenstern →	hasNotableBearer