Oskar Morgenstern's Transformation (1925-38)
The austrian economist who fell in love with mathematics
Unlike his collaborator John von Neumann (1903-57), economist Oskar Morgenstern (1902-77)’s name today remains synonymous with more-or-less a single work: the book Theory of Games and Economic Behavior* which the two co-authored in the war years 1940-44. An economist by training, Morgenste…
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