Christopher A. Pissarides's Birth Card: The 5 of Diamonds

In the record

Sir Christopher Antoniou Pissarides (Greek: Χριστόφορος Αντωνίου Πισσαρίδης; born 20 February 1948) is a Cypriot economist. The birth-card coordinate for February 20 is the 5 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2010 Economic Sciences prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 2010 The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel — for their analysis of markets with search frictions

The 5 of Diamonds coordinate

Christopher A. Pissarides's birthday maps to the 5 of Diamonds (The Dynamic Entrepreneur). 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 Christopher A. Pissarides. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You adjust the resource plan when the ground moves, without pretending nothing changed.

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Christopher A. Pissarides in the public record

He is Regius Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics, and Professor of European Studies at the University of Cyprus. His research focuses on macroeconomics, labour economics, economic growth, and economic policy. In 2010 he received the Nobel Prize in Economics along with Peter Diamond and Dale Mortensen, "for their analysis of markets with theory of search frictions." Pissarides was born in Nicosia, Cyprus, into a Greek Orthodox family from the village of Agros. He first studied at the Pancyprian Gymnasium in Nicosia. After serving in the Cypriot National Guard, he attended the University of Essex, where he received undergraduate and graduate degrees in economics. He then studied at the London School of Economics, where he received a PhD in economics, writing a thesis titled Individual behaviour in markets with imperfect information under the supervision of Michio Morishima. Pissarides is Regius Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics, where he has taught since 1976. He is chairman of the Centre for Macroeconomics, which deploys economists from the University of Cambridge, the London School of Economics, the University College London, the Bank of England, and the National Institute of Economic and Social Research.

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

Where the record meets the 5 of Diamonds

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Sir Christopher Antoniou Pissarides (Greek: Χριστόφορος Αντωνίου Πισσαρίδης; born 20 February 1948) is a Cypriot economist.

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

Also on the record

1. He has held a lectureship at the University of Southampton (1974–76), and visiting professorships at Harvard University (1979–80) and the University of California, Berkeley (1990–91).
2. He served as the chairman of the National Economy Council of the Republic of Cyprus during the country's financial crisis in 2012, and resigned to focus on his academic work at the end of 2014.
3. In 2018, in collaboration with Naomi Climer and Anna Thomas, he founded the Institute for the Future of Work, a London-based research and development institute exploring how new technologies transform work and working lives.
4. In February 2020, Greek prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis appointed Pissarides to the chairmanship of a committee tasked with drafting a long-term growth strategy for the country.

Other laureates with this card

• Alan Heeger — 2000 Chemistry
• Alice Munro — 2013 Literature
• Anatole France — 1921 Literature
• Bert Sakmann — 1991 Physiology or Medicine
• Claudia Goldin — 2023 Economic Sciences
• Edward V. Appleton — 1947 Physics
• Ernest Lawrence — 1939 Physics
• F.W. de Klerk — 1993 Peace
• Fritz Lipmann — 1953 Physiology or Medicine
• George F. Smoot — 2006 Physics
• Jane Addams — 1931 Peace
• John Macleod — 1923 Physiology or Medicine
• 16 more laureates share this card.

FAQ

What is Christopher A. Pissarides's birth card?

The 5 of Diamonds. February 20 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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Where do Christopher A. Pissarides's dates come from?

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