What is Thomas Schelling?
{{nobelprize|Economics}} {{Infobox economist | name = Thomas Schelling | school_tradition = | image = Thomas Schelling.jpg | image_size = 180px | caption = Lecturing at [[Sharif University of Technology]] | birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1921|04|14}} | birth_place = [[Oakland, California]], [[United States]] | death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|2016|12|13|1921|4|14}} | death_place = [[Bethesda, Maryland]], United States | nationality = [[United States]] | institution = [[Yale University]]<br>[[Harvard University]]<br>[[University of Maryland, College Park|University of Maryland]]<br>[[New England Complex Systems Institute]] | field = [[Game theory]] | alma_mater = [[University of California, Berkeley]]<br>[[Harvard University]]<br>[[Yale University]] | contributions = ''The Strategy of Conflict''<br>''Arms and Influence''<br>''Micromotives &<br> Macrobehavior'' | awards = [[Nobel Prize in Economics]] (2005) | signature = <!-- file name only --> | repec_prefix = e | repec_id = psc152}} '''Thomas Crombie Schelling''' (14 April 1921 &ndash; 13 December 2016) was an [[Americans|American]] [[economist]] and professor of [[foreign affairs]], [[national security]], [[nuclear strategy]], and [[arms control]].<ref name=NASNuclear>{{cite web|title=NAS Award for Behavior Research Relevant to the Prevention of Nuclear War|url=http://www.nasonline.org/site/PageServer?pagename=AWARDS_behavioral_research|publisher=National Academy of Sciences|accessdate=16 February 2011}}</ref> After 1953, he left government to join the economics faculty at [[Yale University]], and in 1958 he was appointed Professor of Economics at [[Harvard University]]. In 1969 he joined the [[John F. Kennedy School of Government]] at Harvard. In 1993, Schelling received an award from the [[United States National Academy of Sciences|National Academy of Sciences]].<ref name=NASNuclear/> He also received an honorary doctorate from [[Yale University]] in 200