A. Michael Spence's Birth Card: The King of Clubs

In the record

Andrew Michael Spence (born November 7, 1943) is a Canadian-American economist and Nobel laureate. The birth-card coordinate for November 7 is the King of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2001 Economic Sciences prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 2001 The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel — for their analyses of markets with asymmetric information

The King of Clubs coordinate

A. Michael Spence's birthday maps to the King of Clubs (The Master Leader). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about a Nobel Prize and not a verdict on A. Michael Spence. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You make the intellectual call in the open and you can revise it.

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A. Michael Spence in the public record

Spence is the William R. Berkley Professor in Economics and Business at the Stern School of Business at New York University, and the Philip H. Knight Professor of Management, Emeritus, and Dean, Emeritus, at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Together with George A. Akerlof and Joseph E. Stiglitz, Spence is a co-recipient of the 2001 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, "for their analyses of markets with asymmetric information." Spence is noted for his job-market signaling model, which inspired research into this branch of contract theory. In this model, employees signal their respective skills to employers by acquiring a certain degree of education, which is costly to them. Employers will pay higher wages to more educated employees, because they know that the proportion of employees with high abilities is higher among the educated ones, as it is less costly for them to acquire education than it is for employees with low abilities.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Michael Spence (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.

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Clear thinking and decisive action

Berkley Professor in Economics and Business at the Stern School of Business at New York University, and the Philip H.

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Also on the record

1. For the model to work, it is not even necessary for education to have any intrinsic value if it can convey information about the sender (employee) to the recipient (employer) and if the signal is costly.
2. Spence received his middle and high school education at the University of Toronto Schools.
3. He later joined the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto as a member of the Rotman Dean's Advisory Board.
4. Spence attended Princeton University as an undergraduate student and graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. in philosophy in 1966, completing a senior thesis titled "Freedom and Determinism".

Other laureates with this card

• Albert Camus — 1957 Literature
• Barry C. Barish — 2017 Physics
• Bertram N. Brockhouse — 1994 Physics
• Bruce Merrifield — 1984 Chemistry
• Carl Cori — 1947 Physiology or Medicine
• Cecil Powell — 1950 Physics
• Daniel Bovet — 1957 Physiology or Medicine
• Emil Fischer — 1902 Chemistry
• Eric Kandel — 2000 Physiology or Medicine
• François Jacob — 1965 Physiology or Medicine
• Frederick Sanger — 1958 Chemistry; 1980 Chemistry
• Fredrik Bajer — 1908 Peace
• 28 more laureates share this card.

FAQ

What is A. Michael Spence's birth card?

The King of Clubs. November 7 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

Does a birth card predict a Nobel Prize?

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