Schelling
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In a biographical statement accompanying the prize, Schelling wrote of the checkerboard model, “Without knowing it I was pioneering a field of study that later became known as ‘agent-based computational modeling.’”
From New York Times ● May 8, 2023
But this week, he expanded what the strategist Schelling called “implicit bargaining” with Russia by marking the contours of the war.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 2, 2022
National security scholars such as Thomas Schelling and Morton Halperin developed the concept of arms control in the late 1950s and early 1960s amid an accelerating U.S.-Soviet arms race.
From Salon ● Mar. 12, 2022
Schelling wrote eloquently—at times, all too casually—about sending messages with force.
From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2021
Here they were, gathered at one table, the nation’s foremost practitioners of what Goethe and Schelling called “frozen music.”
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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