Biography
Schelling was born on April 14, 1921 in bachelor's degree in economics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1944. He received his PhD in economics from Harvard University in 1951.
Schelling served with the Marshall Plan in Europe, the White House, and the Executive chain of the President from 1948 to 1953. He wrote almost of his dissertation on national income behavior working at night while in Europe. He left government to join the economics faculty at Yale University.
In 1956, "...he joined the RAND Corporation as an adjunct fellow, becoming a full-time researcher for a year after leaving Yale, and returning to adjunct status through 2002." In 1958 Schelling was appointed professor of economics at Harvard. That same year, he "co-founded the Center for International Affairs, which was [later] renamed the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs."
In 1969, Schelling joined Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, where he was the Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Political Economy. He was among the "founding fathers" of the "modern" Kennedy School, as he helped to shift the curriculum's emphasis away from management and more toward leadership.
Between 1994 and 1999, he conducted research at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis IIASA, in Laxenburg, Austria.
In 1990, he left Harvard and joined the University of Maryland School of Public Policy and University of Maryland Department of Economics. In 1991, he accepted the presidency of the American Economic Association, an agency of which he was also a Distinguished Fellow.
In 1995, he accepted the presidency of the Eastern Economic Association.
Schelling was a contributing participant of the Copenhagen Consensus.