Thomas Schelling has passed away earlier this week. The NYT has published an obituary of Schelling who, as many of you will know, have immensely contributed to game theory with important applications to nuclear war strategy and spatial patterns of segregation.
Some interesting links relate to Schelling's work:
- Tim Harford tells the story of Thomas Schelling, an economist who helped America and the Soviet Union to avoid nuclear war
- Schelling himself talking about the history of the Harvard Kennedy School, of which he is one of the founders
- His original paper on Models of segregation, in AER
- Chris Snijders presenting an overview of 40 years of research that developed over Schelling's Segregation Model
- Nice interactive version of Schelling's Segregation Model in JavaScript, by Matt Conway
- Building a Schelling segregation model in R, by Ben Davies
- Schelling-like interactive segregation model by Nicky Case
- Some Notes on Schelling's Essay "On Letting a Computer Help with the Work
