Thursday, August 09, 2007

Writers Read: Thomas C. Schelling

The current featured contributor to Writers Read: Thomas C. Schelling, winner of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Economics.

Schelling's entry recommends two authors whose writing he finds praiseworthy. Read on.

Schelling is a Distinguished Professor of Economics at the University of Maryland. In 2005 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics for enhancing the "understanding of conflict and cooperation through game-theory analysis."

Read or view his Nobel Prize lecture, and read his autobiography from The Nobel Prizes 2005, editor, Karl Grandin.

Influential books: Thomas C. Schelling.

Writers Read: Thomas C. Schelling.

--Marshal Zeringue