Franco Modigliani's Birth Card: The Queen of Clubs

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Franco Modigliani (US: ; Italian: [ˈfɾaŋko modiʎˈʎaːni]; 18 June 1918 – 25 September 2003) was an Italian-American economist and the recipient of the 1985 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics. The birth-card coordinate for June 18 is the Queen of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1985 Economic Sciences prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1985 The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel — for his pioneering analyses of saving and of financial markets

The Queen of Clubs coordinate

Franco Modigliani's birthday maps to the Queen of Clubs (The Nurturing Leader). 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 Franco Modigliani. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You teach from what you actually know, without making people earn the right to hear it.

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Franco Modigliani in the public record

He was a professor at University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Carnegie Mellon University, and MIT Sloan School of Management. Modigliani was born on 18 June 1918 in Rome to the Jewish family of a pediatrician father and a voluntary social worker mother. He entered university at the age of seventeen, enrolling in the faculty of Law at the Sapienza University of Rome. In his second year at Sapienza, his submission to a nationwide contest in economics sponsored by the official student organization of the state, won first prize and Modigliani received an award from the hand of Benito Mussolini. He wrote several essays for the fascist magazine Lo Stato where he showed an inclination for the fascist ideological currents critical of liberalism. Among his early works in Fascist Italy was an article about the organization and management of production in a socialist economy, written in Italian and arguing the case for socialism along lines laid out by earlier market socialists like Abba Lerner and Oskar Lange. But, that early enthusiasm evaporated soon after the passage of racial laws in Italy. In 1938, Modigliani left Italy for Paris together with his then-girlfriend, Serena Calabi, to join her parents there.

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

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Modigliani was born on 18 June 1918 in Rome to the Jewish family of a pediatrician father and a voluntary social worker mother.

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Also on the record

1. After briefly returning to Rome to defend his laurea thesis at the city's university, he obtained his diploma on 22 July 1939, and returned to Paris.
2. The same year, they all immigrated to the United States and he enrolled at the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research.
3. His Ph.D. dissertation, an elaboration and extension of John Hicks' IS–LM model, was written under the supervision of Jacob Marschak and Abba Lerner, in 1944, and is considered "ground breaking." From 1942 to 1944, Modigliani taught at Columbia University and Bard College as an instructor in economics and statistics.
4. In 1946, he became a naturalized citizen of the United States.

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• Claude Simon — 1985 Literature
• Dario Fo — 1997 Literature
• Donald J. Cram — 1987 Chemistry
• Dudley R. Herschbach — 1986 Chemistry
• Eduard Buchner — 1907 Chemistry
• Edward B. Lewis — 1995 Physiology or Medicine
• 32 more laureates share this card.

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