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 ...

A year and a half after his death, a Nobel laureate’s legacy lives on. Thomas Schelling won the Nobel prize in economics in 2005 for his work on game theory in relation to conflict resolution and ...

"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.

After spending nearly five decades as one of the world’s foremost contributors to the intellectual and practical development of an increasingly influential, ever-more-wide-ranging body of thought ...

This week, Congress has been pondering yet another deal with a deadline. Congressional leaders have agreed to a bipartisan budget that would set spending levels for the next two years, and if it ...

The Russian invasion of Ukraine has politicians and policymakers talking about something that would have been almost unimaginable as recently as a month ago: the specter that a ground war in Eastern ...

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 ...

Thomas Schelling and Robert Aumann have won the 2005 Nobel Prize in Economics. Alex Chadwick talks to Tess Vigeland of Marketplace about the two men, who were recognized for their contributions to ...

University of Maryland professor Thomas Schelling, one of the recent winners of the Nobel Prize for economics, discusses the field of game theory. In the late 1940s, Thomas Schelling worked as a ...

2005 Nobel Laureate Thomas Schelling's career in economics has spanned arenas at home and abroad, ranging from economic reconstruction after World War II, Cold War-era nuclear deterrence and global ...