John Harsanyi

Harsanyi was born in Budapest Hungary on May 29 1920 the son of a pharmacy owner. At Stanford Harsanyi wrote a dissertation in game theory under the supervision of Kenneth Arrow earning a second PhD in economics in 1959 while Anne earned an MA in psychology. The two arrived with her parents on December 30 1950 and they looked to marry immediately.

John Charles Harsanyi (Hungarian: Harsányi János Károly; born May 29 1920 – August 9 2000) was a Hungarian-American economist and Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences winner. He also made important contributions to the use of game theory and economic reasoning in political and moral philosophy (specifically utilitarian ethics) as well as contributing to the study of equilibrium selection. For his work he was a co-recipient along with John Nash and Reinhard Selten of the 1994 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics.