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Reinhard Selten

1930 - 2016

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Reinhard Justus Reginald Selten (German: [ˈʁaɪnhaʁt ˈzɛltn̩] ; 5 October 1930 – 23 August 2016) was a German economist, who won the 1994 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (shared with John Harsanyi and John Nash). He is also well known for his work in bounded rationality and can be considered one of the founding fathers of experimental economics. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Reinhard Selten is the 60th most popular economist (up from 78th in 2019), the 161st most popular biography from Poland (up from 195th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Polish Economist.

Reinhard Selten is a German economist and mathematician. He is most famous for his work in game theory, specifically for inventing the concept of subgame perfect equilibrium.

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Among economists, Reinhard Selten ranks 60 out of 414. Before him are Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Karl Polanyi, Jeffrey Sachs, Werner Sombart, Theodore Schultz, and Frédéric Bastiat. After him are Douglass North, William Vickrey, Lionel Robbins, Wang Anshi, Bernard Mandeville, and Franco Modigliani.

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Among people born in 1930, Reinhard Selten ranks 64. Before him are Félix Guattari, Theodore Edgar McCarrick, Robert Evans, Ali al-Sistani, Edsger W. Dijkstra, and Carlos Kleiber. After him are Gena Rowlands, Jesús Franco, Derek Walcott, Johan Galtung, Robert Wagner, and Ivan Silayev. Among people deceased in 2016, Reinhard Selten ranks 48. Before him are Junko Tabei, Andrzej Żuławski, Frano Selak, George Kennedy, Vera Rubin, and Nikolaus Harnoncourt. After him are Bernardo Provenzano, Esma Redžepova, Viktor Korchnoi, Gene Wilder, Zsa Zsa Gabor, and Michael Cimino.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Reinhard Selten ranks 161 out of 1,694. Before him are Władysław I the Elbow-high (1260), William I of Württemberg (1781), Władysław Anders (1892), Henry II the Pious (1196), Bolesław III Wrymouth (1086), and Mieszko I of Poland (940). After him are Ferdinand Cohn (1828), Clara Immerwahr (1870), Rochus Misch (1917), Witold Lutosławski (1913), Jarosław Kaczyński (1949), and Andrzej Duda (1972).

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Among ECONOMISTS In Poland

Among economists born in Poland, Reinhard Selten ranks 2. Before him are Carl Menger (1840). After him are Oskar R. Lange (1904), Michał Kalecki (1899), Leszek Balcerowicz (1947), Leopold von Wiese (1876), Jan Krzysztof Bielecki (1951), Henryk Grossman (1881), Zyta Gilowska (1949), and Sławomir Skrzypek (1963).

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