Oskar Morgenstern

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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.

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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, United States
surface form: 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 self-link
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)

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John Nash influencedBy Oskar Morgenstern
Oskar Morgenstern fullName Oskar Morgenstern self-link
John von Neumann coAuthor Oskar Morgenstern
Econometric Society founder Oskar Morgenstern
Morgenstern hasNotableBearer Oskar Morgenstern
expected utility theory (with John von Neumann) developedBy Oskar Morgenstern
subject surface form: expected utility theory
Harold W. Kuhn influencedBy Oskar Morgenstern
“Classics in Game Theory” (editor) hasContributor Oskar Morgenstern
subject surface form: Classics in Game Theory
John Harsanyi influencedBy Oskar Morgenstern