In Memoriam
Prof. Thomas C. Schelling was Distinguished University Professor, Emeritus in the Department of Economics and School of Public Affairs at University of Maryland, and Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Political Economy, Emeritus at Harvard University.
In October 2005, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics (announcement).
He held the following positions:
The U. S. Bureau of the Budget, 1945-46
The Marshall Plan in Copenhagen and Paris, 1948-1950
The White House and Executive Office of the President, 1951-1953
Associate Professor and Professor of Economics, Yale University, 1953-58
Senior Staff, The RAND Corporation, 1958-59
Professor of Economics, Harvard University, 1958-90
John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 1969-90
Director, Institute for the Study of Smoking Behavior and Policy, Harvard University, 1984-90
Honors and professional activities include
Member, The National Academy of Sciences;
Member, The Institute of Medicine;
Fellow, The American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
The Frank E. Seidman Distinguished Award in Political Economy;
Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association;
The National Academy of Sciences Award for Behavioral Research Relevant to the Prevention of Nuclear War, 1993;
President, The American Economic Association, 1991;
President, the Eastern Economic Association, 1995.
Nobel Prize for Economics, 2005
Honorary Degrees
Honary Doctorate from the RAND Graduate School of Policy Analysis
Doctorate Honoris Causa from Erasmus University in Rotterdam
He has written on
military strategy and arms control
energy and environmental policy
climate change
nuclear proliferation
terrorism
organized crime
foreign aid and international trade
conflict and bargaining theory
racial segregation and integration
the military draft
health policy
tobacco and drugs policy
ethical issues in public policy and in business
Books:
National Income Behavior, McGraw
International Economics, Allyn and Bacon, 1958
The Strategy of Conflict, Harvard University Press, 1960
Selected as a "Citation Classic" by the Institute for Scientific Information, as published in Current Contents: Arts and Humanities, Vol 15 No 4 Feb 15 1993, over 1350 citations
Selected by the Central and East European Publishing Project as one of "the hundred books which have been most influential in the West since 1945," as published in the Times Literary Supplement (6 October 1995).
Strategy and Arms Control (with Morton H. Halperin), The Twentieth Century Fund, 196l
Arms and Influence, Yale University Press, 1966
Micromotives and Macrobehavior, W. W. Norton and Co., 1978
Thinking Through the Energy Problem, Committee for Economic Development,1979
Choice and Consequence, Harvard University Press, 1984
