Thomas Schelling, an economist who won a Nobel Prize for using game theory to explain nuclear strategy, has died, a colleague said Wednesday. He was 95. Schelling, a longtime Harvard University ...

The University of Maryland has confirmed the death of Thomas Schelling, perhaps the most important economist and social scientist of his generation. Most social scientists hope that their ideas will ...

Thomas Schelling, an economist who won a Nobel Prize for using game theory to explain nuclear strategy, has died, a colleague said Wednesday. He was 95. Thomas Schelling died on Tuesday morning at his ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Thomas Schelling’s death marks the passing of an all-too-rare type of economist. Schelling was a thinker who ...

"The most important event of the second half of the 20th century is one that didn't happen." With those words, Thomas Schelling marked the "stunning achievement" of fifty years without a nuclear war.

Having grown up in the Depression, Thomas Schelling studied economics partly because he wanted to help find a cure for unemployment. By the time he received his doctorate in economics after World War ...