Bengt Holmström's Birth Card: The 3 of Diamonds

In the record

Bengt Robert Holmström (born 18 April 1949) is a Finnish economist who is currently Paul A. The birth-card coordinate for April 18 is the 3 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2016 Economic Sciences prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 2016 The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel — for their contributions to contract theory

The 3 of Diamonds coordinate

Bengt Holmström's birthday maps to the 3 of Diamonds (The Success Communicator). 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 Bengt Holmström. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You keep more than one path alive without letting any of them stay imaginary.

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Bengt Holmström in the public record

Samuelson Professor of Economics (Emeritus) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Together with Oliver Hart, he received the Central Bank of Sweden Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2016. Holmström was born in Helsinki, Finland, on 18 April 1949, and belongs to the Swedish speaking minority of Finland. He received his B.S. in mathematics and science from the University of Helsinki in 1972. He also received a Master of Science degree in operations research from Stanford University in 1975. He received his Ph.D. from the Graduate School of Business at Stanford in 1978. He moved to the United States in 1976. He worked as a corporate planner from 1972 until 1974, then was an assistant professor at the Hanken School of Economics from 1978 until 1979.

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

Where the record meets the 3 of Diamonds

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Bengt Robert Holmström (born 18 April 1949) is a Finnish economist who is currently Paul A.

Paired on value and commerce — the domain ♦ governs in this system. Markers in the record: economist.

Also on the record

1. He served as an associate professor at the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University (1979–1983) and as the Edwin J.
2. Beinecke Professor of Management at Yale University’s School of Management (1983–1994).
3. Holmström was elected Alumnus of The Year by the University of Helsinki Alumni Association in 2010.
4. He has been on the faculty of M.I.T. since 1994, when he was appointed professor of economics and management at the department of economics and Sloan School of Management.

Other laureates with this card

• Alfonso García Robles — 1982 Peace
• Arne Tiselius — 1948 Chemistry
• Aziz Sancar — 2015 Chemistry
• Charles K. Kao — 2009 Physics
• Dan Shechtman — 2011 Chemistry
• David Julius — 2021 Physiology or Medicine
• Derek Barton — 1969 Chemistry
• Elias James Corey — 1990 Chemistry
• Ernest T.S. Walton — 1951 Physics
• Erwin Neher — 1991 Physiology or Medicine
• Frédéric Mistral — 1904 Literature
• Gary Becker — 1992 Economic Sciences
• 20 more laureates share this card.

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