21 Facts About Thomas Schelling

Thomas Crombie Schelling was an American economist and professor of foreign policy, national security, nuclear strategy, and arms control at the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Thomas Schelling was co-faculty at the New England Complex Systems Institute.

Thomas Schelling was born on April 14,1921, in Oakland, California.

Thomas Schelling received his bachelor's degree in economics from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1944 and received his PhD in economics from Harvard University in 1951.

Thomas Schelling served with the Marshall Plan in Europe, the White House, and the Executive Office of the President from 1948 to 1953.

Thomas Schelling wrote most of his dissertation on national income behavior working at night while in Europe.

Thomas Schelling left government to join the economics faculty at Yale University.

In 1969, Schelling joined Harvard's John F Kennedy School of Government, where he was the Lucius N Littauer Professor of Political Economy.

Thomas Schelling was among the "founding fathers" of the "modern" Kennedy School, as he helped to shift the curriculum's emphasis away from administration and more toward leadership.

In 1977, Schelling received The Frank E Seidman Distinguished Award in Political Economy.

Thomas Schelling received honorary doctorates from Erasmus University Rotterdam in 2003, Yale University in 2009, and RAND Graduate School of Public Analysis, as well as an honorary degree from the University of Manchester in 2010.

Thomas Schelling was married to Corinne Tigay Saposs from 1947 to 1991, with whom he had four sons.

Thomas Schelling died on December 13,2016, in Bethesda, Maryland, from complications following a hip fracture at the age of 95.

Alice Thomas Schelling said her late husband had credited Smoky the Cowhorse by Will James, the winner of the Newbery Medal in 1927, as the most influential book he had read.

Thomas Schelling uses the example of "a war of complete extermination" to illustrate this phenomenon.

Thomas Schelling uses the example of one's occupation or evacuation of strategic territory to illustrate this latter communication method.

Thomas Schelling thus argued that motives, malicious or not, were indistinguishable as to explaining the phenomenon of complete local separation of distinct groups.

Thomas Schelling used coins on graph paper to demonstrate his theory by placing pennies and dimes in different patterns on the "board" and then moving them one by one if they were in an "unhappy" situation.

Thomas Schelling was involved in the global warming debate since chairing a commission for President Jimmy Carter in 1980.

Thomas Schelling believed climate change poses a serious threat to developing nations, but that the threat to the United States was exaggerated.

Thomas Schelling is cited for the first known use of the phrase collateral damage in his May 1961 article Dispersal, Deterrence, and Damage.