Nobel Laureate John Harsanyi
Subtitle: from Budapest to Berkeley, 1920-2000
By: John C. Harsanyi, Anne Klauber Harsanyi. Interviews conducted by Marion Ross in 1999. Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley,
Contributors: Harsanyi, Anne Klauber.; Ross, Marion.; Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.
Published: 2000
Subjects: Popper, Karl Raimund, Sir, 1902-1994.; Selten, Reinhard.; Nash, John F., 1928-; Walter A. Haas School of Business (University of California, Berkeley) -- Faculty.; University of California, Berkeley. Dept. of Economics -- Faculty.; Economists -- California -- Interviews.; Game theory -- Economic aspects.
Other titles: University history series.
Description: Childhood in pre-WWII Budapest; studies in leather chemistry, pharmacy, sociology; German invasion, 1944, escape from Communist Hungary to Austria; Australia, 1950-1961: studies in economics, teaching at U. of Queensland, Wayne State University, Yale; Institute of Behavioral Science, Stanford, 1965-1966; professor at UC Berkeley, 1964-1990; reflections on arms control theory, game theory, utilitarian theory; work with Karl Popper, Reinhard Selten, John Nash, and other economists; Nobel Prize award and ceremony, 1994.