Peyton Young
| H. Peyton Young | |
|---|---|
| Born | March 9, 1945 |
| Residence | U.S., U.K. |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields | Economics, Game Theory, Finance |
| Institutions |
London School of Economics University of Oxford Nuffield College, Oxford U.S. Department of the Treasury |
| Alma mater |
North Shore Country Day School Harvard University University of Michigan |
| Known for |
Evolutionary Game Theory Social Dynamics Learning in Games Social Norms Distributive justice Applications of Game Theory to Finance |
| Notable awards |
George Hallett Award, American Political Science Association (2008) Fellow of the British Academy (2007) Fellow of the Econometric Society (1995) Lester R. Ford Award, Mathematical Association of America (1976) |
Hobart Peyton Young (born March 9, 1945) is an American game theorist and economist known for his contributions to evolutionary game theory and its application to the study of institutional and technological change, as well as the theory of learning in games. He is currently Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics, Professorial Fellow at Nuffield College Oxford, and Research Principal at the Office of Financial Research at the U.S. Department of the Treasury. Formerly he was James Meade Professor of Economics at the University of Oxford.
Peyton Young was named a Fellow of the Econometric Society in 1995 and a Fellow of the British Academy in 2007. He served as president of the Game Theory Society from 2006-08.[1] He has published widely on learning in games, the evolution of social norms and institutions, cooperative game theory, bargaining and negotiation, taxation and cost allocation, political representation, voting procedures, and distributive justice.
In 1966, he graduated cum laude in General Studies from Harvard University. He completed a PhD in Mathematics at the University of Michigan in 1970, where he graduated with the Sumner B. Myers thesis prize for his work in combinatorial mathematics.
His first academic post was at the Graduate School of the City University of New York as Assistant Professor and then Associate Professor, from 1971 to 1976. From 1976 to 1982, Young was Research Scholar and Deputy Chairman of the Systems and Decision Sciences Division at the Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria. He was then appointed Professor of Economics and Public Policy in the School of Public Affairs at the University of Maryland, College Park from 1992 to 1994. Young was Scott & Barbara Black Professor of Economics at the Johns Hopkins University from 1994, until moving to Oxford as James Meade Professor of Economics in 2007. He has been Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics since 2015 and remains a Professorial Fellow Of Nuffield College, Oxford.
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