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- Title
HARSANYI BEFORE ECONOMICS: AN INTRODUCTION*.
- Authors
PHILIPPE FONTAINE
- Abstract
Upon learning that John C. Harsanyi (1920?2000) was awarded the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, in 1994, for his pioneering work in game theory, few economists probably questioned the appropriateness of that choice. The Budapest-born social scientist had already been recognized as a first-rank contributor to non-cooperative game theory for some time (see, e.g., Gul 1997). However, as many readers of this journal will be aware, Harsanyi first contributed to welfare economics, not game theory. More importantly, he was philosophically minded and accordingly has been ?acknowledged as the most influential philosopher in economics? (G?th 1994: 252).1This is of some significance since, before Harsanyi became acquainted with economics around 1950, his main interest was philosophy and, to a lesser extent, sociology and psychology. Rather than an economist with philosophical leanings, Harsanyi was actually a philosopher turned economist.
- Subjects
HARSANYI, John C.; ECONOMISTS; SOCIAL scientists; GAME theory; MATHEMATICAL models; MATHEMATICS
- Publication
Economics & Philosophy, 2007, Vol 23, Issue 3, p343
- ISSN
0266-2671
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0266267107001526