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An economist who won the Nobel Memorial Prize in 1994 along with John Nash and Reinhard Selten for his research on game theory, a mathematical system for predicting the outcomes of competitions and conflicts. Harsanyi is also noted for his contributions to moral philosophy.
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Born in 1920 in Budapest, Harsanyi escaped first the Nazis and then communist Hungary to end up in Australia before coming to the United States. Having already earned a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Budapest, he went on to earn another Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University and became a professor at the University of California, Berkeley.

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