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John Harsanyi

1920 - 2000

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John Charles Harsanyi (Hungarian: Harsányi János Károly; May 29, 1920 – August 9, 2000) was a Hungarian-American economist who spent most of his career at the University of California, Berkeley. He was the recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1994. Harsanyi is best known for his contributions to the study of game theory and its application to economics, specifically for his developing the highly innovative analysis of games of incomplete information, so-called Bayesian games. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Harsanyi has received more than 351,019 page views. His biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 45 in 2019). John Harsanyi is the 129th most popular economist (down from 98th in 2019), the 165th most popular biography from Hungary (down from 116th in 2019) and the most popular Hungarian Economist.

John Harsanyi was a Hungarian-born economist who is most famous for his contributions to game theory. He created the Nash Equilibrium, which is a solution to a game in which both players have made the best possible decision given the other player's move.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, John Harsanyi ranks 129 out of 414. Before him are Harriet Martineau, Knut Wicksell, Robert J. Shiller, Tjalling Koopmans, Alan Greenspan, and George Stigler. After him are James Meade, Eugene Fama, Ernest Mandel, Christopher A. Sims, Robert C. Merton, and Angus Deaton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, John Harsanyi ranks 91. Before him are Hans Blumenberg, Henri Verneuil, José López Portillo y Pacheco, Jaan Kross, Franklin J. Schaffner, and Karl Albrecht. After him are Ben Ferencz, Ricardo Montalbán, Heinz Hitler, Kim Yong-ju, Peggy Lee, and Eileen Chang. Among people deceased in 2000, John Harsanyi ranks 55. Before him are Jan Karski, Jacques Chaban-Delmas, Yasuo Suzuki, Moacir Barbosa Nascimento, Lazar Koliševski, and Phạm Văn Đồng. After him are Lolo Ferrari, Friedrich Gulda, Ion Gheorghe Maurer, Herta Bothe, Jean-Pierre Rampal, and Loretta Young.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, John Harsanyi ranks 165 out of 1,077. Before him are Miklós Zrínyi (1620), Árpád Göncz (1922), Coloman of Galicia (1208), Yolanda of Poland (1235), Hans Richter (1843), and Ferenc Krausz (1962). After him are Aladár Gerevich (1910), Gyula Zsengellér (1915), Béla Miklós (1890), Ferenc Erkel (1810), Michael Balint (1896), and Constance of Hungary (1180).

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Among ECONOMISTS In Hungary

Among economists born in Hungary, John Harsanyi ranks 1. After him are Nicholas Kaldor (1908), János Kornai (1928), Eugen Varga (1879), and László Andor (1966).

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