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Oskar Morgenstern – On the Accuracy of Economic Observations - 2nd Edition, completely revisited – Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1965, 322 páginas.

Trata-se da segunda impressão (1965) da 2ª edição (1963). Original publicado em 1950.

Livro em bom estado, apenas com alguns sinais de uso na sobrecapa, o maior dos quais é o rasgão que pode ver na lombada, em baixo (foto 3), e outro rasgão no topo da sobrecapa, parte de trás, ao meio (foto 4)

De resto, miolo impecável, papel de alta qualidade, sem notas, sublinhados ou assinaturas de posse.

Profusamente ilustrado com vários gráficos e tabelas.

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Oskar Morgenstern (January 24, 1902 – July 26, 1977) was a German-born economist.

In collaboration with mathematician John von Neumann, he founded the mathematical field of game theory as applied to the social sciences and strategic decision-making (see von Neumann–Morgenstern utility theorem).

Companies he served as founder/co-founder of included Market Research Corporation of America, Mathematica and Mathematica Policy Research.

Morgenstern was born in Görlitz in the Prussian Province of Silesia. His mother was said to be a daughter of Emperor Frederick III of Germany.

Morgenstern grew up in Vienna, Austria, where he also went to university. In 1925, he graduated from the University of Vienna and got his PhD in political science.

During Morgenstern's visit to Princeton University, Adolf Hitler took over Vienna during the Anschluss, and Morgenstern decided to remain in the United States.

He became a member of the faculty at Princeton but gravitated toward the Institute for Advanced Study.

There, he met von Neumann and they collaborated to write Theory of Games and Economic Behavior, published in 1944, which is recognized as the first book on game theory, a mathematical framework for the study of strategic structures which govern rational decision-making in certain economic, political, and military situations.

In 2013, the University of Vienna relocated the Faculty of Business, Economics and Statistics and named the square Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz in his honor.

The collaboration between economist Morgenstern and mathematician von Neumann led to the birth of entirely new areas of investigation in both mathematics and economics. These have attracted widespread academic and practical interest since that time.

In 1944, Morgenstern also became a United States citizen, and four years later he married Dorothy Young, with whom he had two children, Carl and Karin. In 1950, he was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.

Morgenstern remained at Princeton as a professor of economics until his retirement in 1970, at which time he joined the faculty of New York University. Morgenstern wrote many other articles and books, including On the Accuracy of Economic Observations, and Predictability of Stock Market Prices with subsequent Nobel laureate Clive Granger.