Thomas C. Schelling: la paradoja de un economista errante

Boris Salazar ()
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Boris Salazar: Universidad del Valle

Revista de Economía Institucional, 2007, vol. 9, issue 17, pages 131-152

Abstract: This article explains two enigmas related to the scientific career of Thomas C. Schelling, Nobel Price in Economics 2005: How to explain his capacity to always produce new ideas? Why have his multiple pioneer ideas had more impact on other social sciences and not on economics? The paper proposes three hypotheses: the minor impact of the acquired knowledge of his theoretical work, a heuristic that always privileged the relationship between unpublished facts and unusual angles, and the creation of a spontaneous knowledge network that covered different disciplines dedicated to social interaction.

Keywords: focal points; heuristic; theory of games; social dynamic; neural circuits (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B31 B41 D83 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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