Steven J. Brams

Steven J. Brams is Professor of Politics at New York University and the author, co-author, or co-editor of 17 books and more than 250 articles. He holds two patents for fair-division algorithms. He has taught at Yale University, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Rochester, Syracuse University, and the University of California, Irvine.

Brams received his B.S. from MIT and his Ph.D. from Northwestern University. He has applied game theory and social-choice theory to voting and elections, bargaining and fairness, international relations, and the Bible, theology, and literature. He is a former president of the Peace Science Society (1990-91) and of the Public Choice Society (2004-2006). He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1986), a Guggenheim Fellow (1986-87), and was a Visiting Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation (1998-99).

New York University URL: http://politics.as.nyu.edu/object/stevenbrams

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