Dale T. Mortensen's Birth Card: The 10 of Spades

In the record

Dale Thomas Mortensen (February 2, 1939 – January 9, 2014) was an American economist, a professor at Northwestern University, and a winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. The birth-card coordinate for February 2 is the 10 of Spades — 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 10 of Spades coordinate

Dale T. Mortensen's birthday maps to the 10 of Spades (The Completed Mind). 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 Dale T. Mortensen. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You do the difficult curriculum in front of you without adding the ones that are not yours.

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Dale T. Mortensen in the public record

Mortensen was born in Enterprise, Oregon. He received his BA in economics from Willamette University in 1961 and his PhD in Economics from Carnegie Mellon University in 1967. Mortensen had been on the faculty of Northwestern University since 1965 and a professor of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences at the Kellogg School of Management since 1980. He was the Niels Bohr Visiting Professor at the School of Economics and Management, Aarhus University, from 2006 to 2010. He was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences jointly with Christopher A. Pissarides from the London School of Economics and Peter A. Diamond from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2010 "for their analysis of markets with search frictions". In May 2011, Mortensen was awarded an honorary doctorate from his alma mater, Willamette University.

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

Where the record meets the 4 of Diamonds

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Strong financial planning and foresight

Dale Thomas Mortensen (February 2, 1939 – January 9, 2014) was an American economist, a professor at Northwestern University, and a winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.

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

Also on the record

1. He was married to Beverly Mortensen, also a Northwestern Professor.
2. Mortensen's research focused on labor economics, macroeconomics and economic theory.
3. He is especially known for his pioneering work on the search and matching theory of frictional unemployment.
4. He extended the insights from this work to study labor turnover and reallocation, research and development, and personal relationships.

Other laureates with this card

• Brian D. Josephson — 1973 Physics
• Gao Xingjian — 2000 Literature
• May-Britt Moser — 2014 Physiology or Medicine
• Richard R. Schrock — 2005 Chemistry

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What is Dale T. Mortensen's birth card?

The 10 of Spades. February 2 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

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