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10-31-2013, 03:50 PM
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita:
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Bruce Bueno de Mesquita (b. ca 1945) is a political scientist, professor at New York University, and senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. He earned his BA degree from Queens College, New York in 1967 and then his MA and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. He specializes in international relations, foreign policy, and nation building. He is one of the authors of the selectorate theory, and is also the director of New York University's Alexander Hamilton Center for Political Economy. He has founded a company, Mesquita & Roundell,[2] that specializes in making political and foreign-policy forecasts. Bueno de Mesquita is discussed in an August 16, 2009 Sunday New York Times magazine article entitled Can Game Theory Predict When Iran Will Get the Bomb?.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Bueno_de_Mesquita
The son of Jewish immigrants who arrived from Brussels during World War II, Bueno de Mesquita grew up in Manhattan, where his father ran a small publishing company and his mother managed a women’s clothing shop. He went to Queens College when he was 16 — “way too young,” he says — and read history and literature voraciously. (Bueno de Mesquita spent years researching and writing a short novel that defends Ebenezer Scrooge as a kindhearted man.) “He is one the most remarkably intelligent human beings I’ve met in my life, and Bruce does not hesitate to tell you that,” Kevin Gaynor, an environmental lawyer who has twice hired Bueno de Mesquita to advise his corporate clients on “extremely sensitive” government negotiations, told me half-jokingly. “He’s not self-effacing. But he’s not self-effacing in a charming way.” Bueno de Mesquita’s voluminous academic work — he has published 16 books and more than 100 papers — is credited with helping to move game theory and mathematical modeling into the mainstream of political science; according to one count, by 1999 fully 40 percent of papers in the American Political Science Review used modeling. (The figure was so high it prompted deep consternation among non-game-theory political scientists.)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/16/magazine/16Bruce-t.html?pagewanted=3
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http://futurepredictions.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/good-cover-novdec-071.jpg?w=232
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita (b. ca 1945) is a political scientist, professor at New York University, and senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. He earned his BA degree from Queens College, New York in 1967 and then his MA and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. He specializes in international relations, foreign policy, and nation building. He is one of the authors of the selectorate theory, and is also the director of New York University's Alexander Hamilton Center for Political Economy. He has founded a company, Mesquita & Roundell,[2] that specializes in making political and foreign-policy forecasts. Bueno de Mesquita is discussed in an August 16, 2009 Sunday New York Times magazine article entitled Can Game Theory Predict When Iran Will Get the Bomb?.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Bueno_de_Mesquita
The son of Jewish immigrants who arrived from Brussels during World War II, Bueno de Mesquita grew up in Manhattan, where his father ran a small publishing company and his mother managed a women’s clothing shop. He went to Queens College when he was 16 — “way too young,” he says — and read history and literature voraciously. (Bueno de Mesquita spent years researching and writing a short novel that defends Ebenezer Scrooge as a kindhearted man.) “He is one the most remarkably intelligent human beings I’ve met in my life, and Bruce does not hesitate to tell you that,” Kevin Gaynor, an environmental lawyer who has twice hired Bueno de Mesquita to advise his corporate clients on “extremely sensitive” government negotiations, told me half-jokingly. “He’s not self-effacing. But he’s not self-effacing in a charming way.” Bueno de Mesquita’s voluminous academic work — he has published 16 books and more than 100 papers — is credited with helping to move game theory and mathematical modeling into the mainstream of political science; according to one count, by 1999 fully 40 percent of papers in the American Political Science Review used modeling. (The figure was so high it prompted deep consternation among non-game-theory political scientists.)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/16/magazine/16Bruce-t.html?pagewanted=3