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{{short description|American economist}}
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'''David Marc "Dave" Kreps''' (born 1950 in {{wipe|New York City}}) is a [[Game theory|game theorist]] and [[Social:Economist|economist]] and professor at the Graduate School of Business at [[Organization:Stanford University|Stanford University]] (since 1980). The [[Organization:Stanford University|Stanford University]] Department of Economics appointed Kreps the Adams Distinguished Professor of Management. He is known for his analysis of dynamic choice models and non-cooperative game theory, particularly the idea of sequential equilibrium, which he developed with Stanford Business School colleague [[Biography:Robert B. Wilson|Robert B. Wilson]].

He earned his A.B. from [[Organization:Dartmouth College|Dartmouth College]] in 1972 and his Ph.D. from Stanford in 1975.  Kreps won the John Bates Clark Medal in 1989.  He was awarded an honorary Ph.D. by the Université Paris-Dauphine in 2001. With colleagues [[Biography:Paul Milgrom|Paul Milgrom]] and [[Biography:Robert B. Wilson|Robert B. Wilson]], he was awarded the 2018 John J. Carty Award for the Advancement of Science. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences. In 2018, Kreps was awarded the Erwin Plein Nemmers Prize in Economics by [[Organization:Northwestern University|Northwestern University]].

He has also written many books, including ''Microeconomics for Managers'',<ref>{{cite book|author=David M. Kreps|title=Microeconomics for Managers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_l2bQgAACAAJ|year=2004|publisher=Norton|isbn=978-0-393-97678-6}}</ref> ''A Course in Microeconomic Theory'', and ''Game Theory and Economic Modeling''.<ref>{{cite book|author=David M. Kreps|title=Game Theory and Economic Modelling|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qMoTDAAAQBAJ|year=1990|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-828381-2}}</ref>

==See also==
* Trade-off Talking Rational Economic Person

==External links==
*[https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/faculty-research/faculty/david-m-kreps David M. Kreps' home page at Stanford University]
* {{citation|title=Contributions to the ''New Palgrave''|author1=David&nbsp;M. Kreps|author2=John Roberts|author3=Robert&nbsp;B. Wilson|date=July 1986|pages=30–35|url=https://gsbapps.stanford.edu/researchpapers/library/RP892.pdf|access-date=7 February 2011|series=Research paper|volume=892|publisher=Graduate School of Business, Stanford University|location=Palo Alto,&nbsp;CA|id=(Draft of articles for the first edition of ''New&nbsp;Palgrave Dictionary of Economics'')}}

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