Peyton Young

About Peyton Young

Hobart Peyton Young (born March 9, 1945) is an American game theorist and economist known for his contributions to evolutionary game theory and its application to the study of institutional and technological change, as well as the theory of learning in games. He is James Meade Professor of Economics Emeritus at the University of Oxford and professorial fellow at Nuffield College Oxford. Peyton Young was named a fellow of the Econometric Society in 1995, a fellow of the British Academy in 2007, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2018. He served as president of the Game Theory Society from 2006 to 2008 and Centennial Professor at the LSE from 2015-2021.