!!!Morgenstern, Oskar

b. Goerlitz (Germany), Jan. 24, 1902, 
d. New York (USA), July 26, 1977, political economist. After 
completing his university studies in Vienna director of the Austrian 
Institute for Trade Cycle Research from 1930-1938 and university 
professor in Vienna from 1935-1938. Left Austria for the USA in 1938, 
where he taught at Princeton and became director of the Economic 
Research Programme. Founded the  Institut fuer Hoehere Studien (IHS) 
in Vienna in 1963 of which he was director until 1970; later returned 
to the USA (taught in New York until 1976). M. was the founder of the 
game theory and exerted great influence as advisor to the US 
government.

!Works
Wirtschaftsprognose. Eine Untersuchung ihrer Voraussetzungen 
und Moeglichkeiten, 1928; Die Grenzen der Wirtschaftspolitik, 1934; 
Spieltheorie und Wirtschaftswiss., 1963.



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