Finn E. Kydland's Birth Card: The 4 of Diamonds

In the record

Finn Erling Kydland (born 1 December 1943) is a Norwegian economist known for his contributions to business cycle theory. The birth-card coordinate for December 1 is the 4 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2004 Economic Sciences prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 2004 The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel — for their contributions to dynamic macroeconomics: the time consistency of economic policy and the driving forces behind business cycles

The 4 of Diamonds coordinate

Finn E. Kydland's birthday maps to the 4 of Diamonds (The Financial Foundation Builder). 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 Finn E. Kydland. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You build a floor that lasts and still let money move when the work requires it.

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Finn E. Kydland in the public record

He is the Henley Professor of Economics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He also holds the Richard P. Simmons Distinguished Professorship at the Tepper School of Business of Carnegie Mellon University, where he earned his PhD, and a part-time position at the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH). Kydland was a co-recipient of the 2004 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics, with Edward C. Prescott, "for their contributions to dynamic macroeconomics: the time consistency of economic policy and the driving forces behind business cycles." Kydland grew up as the eldest of six siblings at the family farm at Søyland in Gjestal Municipality, which is located in the Jæren farming region in Rogaland county, southwestern Norway. He recalls having had a liberal upbringing, his parents not imposing many limitations on their children. Finn Kydland became interested in mathematics and economics as a young adult, after he did some bookkeeping at a friend's mink farm. With a freshly awakened interest in theoretical economics, Kydland earned a BSc from the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH) in 1968 and a PhD in economics from Carnegie Mellon in 1973, dissertation: Decentralized Macroeconomic Planning, supervised by Edward C.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Finn E. Kydland (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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Finn Erling Kydland (born 1 December 1943) is a Norwegian economist known for his contributions to business cycle theory.

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

Also on the record

1. Prescott.
2. After his PhD he returned to NHH as an assistant professor.
3. In 1978 he moved back to Carnegie Mellon as an associate professor.
4. He has been living in the United States since then.

Other laureates with this card

• Abhijit Banerjee — 2019 Economic Sciences
• Aleksandr M. Prokhorov — 1964 Physics
• Amartya Sen — 1998 Economic Sciences
• Derek Walcott — 1992 Literature
• Drew Weissman — 2023 Physiology or Medicine
• Frank Wilczek — 2004 Physics
• Frédéric Joliot — 1935 Chemistry
• Georges J.F. Köhler — 1984 Physiology or Medicine
• Gertrude B. Elion — 1988 Physiology or Medicine
• Henrik Dam — 1943 Physiology or Medicine
• Hideki Yukawa — 1949 Physics
• Ilya Mechnikov — 1908 Physiology or Medicine
• 22 more laureates share this card.

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The 4 of Diamonds. December 1 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

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