Daniel L. McFadden's Birth Card: The Queen of Hearts

In the record

Daniel Little McFadden (born July 29, 1937) is an American econometrician who shared the 2000 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with James Heckman. The birth-card coordinate for July 29 is the Queen of Hearts — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2000 Economic Sciences prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 2000 The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel — for his development of theory and methods for analyzing discrete choice

The Queen of Hearts coordinate

Daniel L. McFadden's birthday maps to the Queen of Hearts (The Devoted Nurturer). 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 Daniel L. McFadden. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You take care of people from presence, not from scanning for what they might need next.

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Daniel L. McFadden in the public record

McFadden's share of the prize was "for his development of theory and methods for analyzing discrete choice". He is the Presidential Professor of Health Economics at the University of Southern California and Professor of the Graduate School at University of California, Berkeley. McFadden was born on July 29, 1937, in Raleigh, North Carolina. He attended the University of Minnesota, where he received a B.S. in Physics, and a Ph.D. in Behavioral Science (Economics) five years later (1962). While at the University of Minnesota, his graduate advisor was Leonid Hurwicz, who was awarded the Economics Nobel Prize in 2007. In 1964, McFadden joined the faculty of University of California, Berkeley, focusing his research on choice behavior and the problem of linking economic theory and measurement. In 1974, he introduced conditional logit analysis. In 1975, McFadden won the John Bates Clark Medal.

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

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Visionary thinking and big-picture perspective

He is the Presidential Professor of Health Economics at the University of Southern California and Professor of the Graduate School at University of California, Berkeley.

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Also on the record

1. In 1977, he moved to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
2. In 1981, he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
3. He returned to Berkeley in 1991, founding the Econometrics Laboratory, which is devoted to statistical computation for economics applications.
4. He is a trustee of the Economists for Peace and Security.

Other laureates with this card

• Albert A. Michelson — 1907 Physics
• Ales Bialiatski — 2022 Peace
• Carl Bosch — 1931 Chemistry
• Charles G. Dawes — 1925 Peace
• Dag Hammarskjöld — 1961 Peace
• Eric Cornell — 2001 Physics
• Eyvind Johnson — 1974 Literature
• Felix Bloch — 1952 Physics
• George D. Snell — 1980 Physiology or Medicine
• Il´ja M. Frank — 1958 Physics
• Isidor Isaac Rabi — 1944 Physics
• Norman F. Ramsey — 1989 Physics
• 3 more laureates share this card.

FAQ

What is Daniel L. McFadden's birth card?

The Queen of Hearts. July 29 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

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