Economics
Reinhard Selten, Game Theorist Who Won Nobel Prize, Dies at 85
- Selten shared 1994 Nobel prize with Nash and Harsanyi
- Economist said emergence of mass movements can weaken theory
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Reinhard Selten, the German economist and mathematician who won the 1994 Nobel Prize for his work on game theory, has died. He was 85.
Selten died on Aug. 23 in the Polish city of Poznan, according to a statement Thursday by the University of Bonn, where he was until recently still active in research.