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Harvard Kennedy School Oral History: Thomas Schelling

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The oral history project at Harvard Kennedy School features the voices and perspectives of key contributors to the school's mission of training enlightened public leaders and generating the ideas that provide solutions to the world's most challenging public problems. Featured in this video is Thomas Schelling, one of the founders of Harvard Kennedy School and the recipient of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Economics. Table of Contents: 1) Early Life - 0:37 2) Outbreak of World War II - 2:32 3) Studying During the War - 5:45 4) Negotiating the Marshall Plan - 7:40 5) Academia and Government Service - 11:14 6) Self-Taught in Game Theory - 13:14 7) "Games and Decisions" - 14:47 8) The RAND Corp. & Nuclear Strategy - 16:00 9) "Strategy and Arms Control" - 18:34 10) The "Red Telephone" - 21:37 11) Arms Control & Mutual Deterrence - 24:46 12) Influence within the Kennedy Administration - 30:05 13) The Problem with Ballistic Missile Defenses - 31:51 14) Dr. Strangelove - 35:42 15) The Kennedy School - 43:20 16) Expansion of the Kennedy School - 47:44 17) The Early Faculty - 49:51 18) Evaluation of Human Life - 51:42 19) Organized Crime, Beer and Laundry - 53:13 20) Modeling Racial Self-Segregation - 58:04 21) Winning the Nobel Prize - 1:00:21 22) Contributions to Scholarship and Public Policy - 1:06:03

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