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Nobel Laureate John Harsanyi : oral history transcript : from Budapest to Berkeley, 1920-2000 / 2000.
HB119.H37 A3 2000; BANC MSS 2001/131 cz; Phonotape 3186 C:1-3
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Title:

Nobel Laureate John Harsanyi : oral history transcript: from Budapest to Berkeley, 1920-2000 / 2000
University of California history series

Creator/Contributor:

Harsanyi, John C., creator, interviewee.

Creator/Contributor:

Harsanyi, Anne Klauber, interviewee.

Creator/Contributor:

Ross, Marion, interviewer.

Creator/Contributor:

Bancroft Library, Regional Oral History Office.

Abstract:

Childhood in pre-WWII Budapest; studies in leather chemistry, pharmacy, sociology; German invasion, 1944, escape from Communist Hungary to Austria; Australia, 1950-1961: studies in economics, teaching at U. of Queensland, Wayne State University, Yale; Institute of Behavioral Science, Stanford, 1965-1966; professor at UC Berkeley, 1964-1990; reflections on arms control theory, game theory, utilitarian theory; work with Karl Popper, Reinhard Selten, John Nash, and other economists; Nobel Prize award and ceremony, 1994.

Date:

2000 (issued)

Subject:

n-us-ca
Popper, Karl R. (Karl Raimund) -- 1902-1994
Selten, Reinhard
Jr -- Nash, John F -- 1928-2015
Walter A. Haas School of Business (University of California, Berkeley) -- Faculty
University of California, Berkeley. -- Dept. of Economics -- Faculty
Economists -- California -- Interviews
Game theory -- Economic aspects

Note:

John C. Harsanyi, Anne Klauber Harsanyi. Interviews conducted by Marion Ross in 1999. Regional Oral History Office, the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley,
Forms part of the University history series.
AUDIO/VISUAL MATERIALS RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator. CU-BANC
Audio tape recording of the interviews also available. Shelved as Phonotape 3186 C:1-3.
Also available online.
Duplicate transcript: Dept. of Special Collections, University of California, Los Angeles Library.
This manuscript is made available for research purposes only. All publication rights are reserved to The Bancroft Library of the University of California, Berkeley. Requests for permission to quote for publication should be addressed to the Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Volume includes index.

Type:

biography
Oral histories.

Physical Description:

print
1 v. (vii, 151 p.) : port. ; 29 cm.
3 sound cassettes.

Language:

English

Identifier:

http://nma.berkeley.edu/ark:/28722/bk0005z0x82
HB119.H37 A3 2000
BANC MSS 2001/131 cz
Phonotape 3186 C:1-3

Origin:

California

Classification:

HB119.H37 A3 2000

Copyright Note:

AUDIO/VISUAL MATERIALS RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator. CU-BANC
This manuscript is made available for research purposes only. All publication rights are reserved to The Bancroft Library of the University of California, Berkeley. Requests for permission to quote for publication should be addressed to the Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

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