Robert W. Rosenthal (1945 – February 7, 2002) was an American economist, most known for his contributions to game theory.
(1968) and Ph.D. (1971) in operations research from Stanford University, advised by Robert B.
[1] He worked as assistant professor in the department of Industrial Engineering and management science at Northwestern University (1970–1976), was member of the technical staff at Bell Labs (1976–1983), was professor of economics at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (1983–84), State University of New York at Stony Brook (1984–1987) and Boston University where he worked (1987–2002) until his death from a heart attack.
He held a Fulbright chair in economics at the University of Siena (2001).
He authored many journal articles, and defined the revelation principle and random matching, as applied in works with Henry Landau.