Thomas Cromby Schelling

Thomas Crombie Schelling (English: Thomas Crombie Schelling, April 14, 1921 - December 13, 2016), American economist, sociologist, and professor at the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland. His research fields are foreign affairs, national security, nuclear strategy, and weapons control. Its theory is partly inherited from the mathematical sociologist James Samuel Coleman, who jointly won the 2005 Nobel Prize in Economics with Robert Auman for "improving our understanding of conflict and cooperation through game theory analysis." He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association. In 1991, he served as president of the American Economic Association. In 1995, he served as president of the Eastern Economic Association.