Lloyd Shapley Facts for Kids

Lloyd Shapley in Stockholm in 2012

Lloyd Stowell Shapley (June 2, 1923 – March 12, 2016) was an American mathematician and economist. He was known for his work on mathematical economics and especially game theory. Since the work of von Neumann and Morgenstern in 1940s, Shapley has been thought by many experts as the very creator of game theory.

With Alvin E. Roth, Shapley won the 2012 Nobel Prize in Economics "for the theory of stable allocations and the practice of market design". In recent years, he worked at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Shapley was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He studied at Princeton University and at Harvard University. Shapley died on March 12, 2016 in Tucson, Arizona from complications of a broken hip. He was aged 92.

Winners of the Nobel Prize in Economics

1969–1975	Ragnar Frisch / Jan Tinbergen (1969) • Paul Samuelson (1970) • Simon Kuznets (1971) • John Hicks / Kenneth Arrow (1972) • Wassily Leontief (1973) • Gunnar Myrdal / Friedrich Hayek (1974) • Leonid Kantorovich / Tjalling Koopmans (1975)

1976–2000	Milton Friedman (1976) • Bertil Ohlin / James Meade (1977) • Herbert Simon (1978) • Theodore Schultz / Arthur Lewis (1979) • Lawrence Klein (1980) • James Tobin (1981) • George Stigler (1982) • Gérard Debreu (1983) • Richard Stone (1984) • Franco Modigliani (1985) • James M. Buchanan (1986) • Robert Solow (1987) • Maurice Allais (1988) • Trygve Haavelmo (1989) • Harry Markowitz / Merton Miller / William Forsyth Sharpe (1990) • Ronald Coase (1991) • Gary Becker (1992) • Robert Fogel / Douglass North (1993) • John Harsanyi / John Forbes Nash / Reinhard Selten (1994) • Robert Lucas, Jr. (1995) • James Mirrlees / William Vickrey (1996) • Robert C. Merton / Myron Scholes (1997) • Amartya Sen (1998) • Robert Mundell (1999) • James Heckman / Daniel McFadden (2000)

2001–present	George Akerlof / Michael Spence / Joseph E. Stiglitz (2001) • Daniel Kahneman / Vernon L. Smith (2002) • Robert F. Engle / Clive Granger (2003) • Finn E. Kydland / Edward C. Prescott (2004) • Robert Aumann / Thomas Schelling (2005) • Edmund Phelps (2006) • Leonid Hurwicz / Eric Maskin / Roger Myerson (2007) • Paul Krugman (2008) • Elinor Ostrom / Oliver E. Williamson (2009) • Peter A. Diamond / Dale T. Mortensen / Christopher A. Pissarides (2010) • Thomas J. Sargent / Christopher A. Sims (2011) • Alvin E. Roth / Lloyd S. Shapley (2012) • Eugene Fama / Lars Peter Hansen / Robert J. Shiller (2013) • Jean Tirole (2014) • Angus Deaton (2015)

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