Nobel laureate · birth-card coordinate
Guido W. Imbens's Birth Card: The 8 of Diamonds
The Businessman
A birth card is a calendar coordinate for the month and day. It is not fortune-telling and does not predict a Nobel Prize.
In the record
Guido Wilhelmus Imbens (born 3 September 1963) is a Dutch-American economist whose research concerns econometrics and statistics. The birth-card coordinate for September 3 is the 8 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2021 Economic Sciences prize.
Nobel Prize record
- 2021 The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel — for their methodological contributions to the analysis of causal relationships
2021 — The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
“for their methodological contributions to the analysis of causal relationships”
Shared with Joshua D. Angrist (6♣). The award was divided; this laureate's listed portion is 1/4.
93 other Economic Sciences laureates in this set carry a birth-card coordinate.
The 8 of Diamonds coordinate
Guido W. Imbens's birthday maps to the 8 of Diamonds (The Businessman). 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 Guido W. Imbens. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You run the money system in the open and you can explain the call.
Guido W. Imbens in the public record
He holds the Applied Econometrics Professorship in Economics at the Stanford Graduate School of Business at Stanford University, where he has taught since 2012. In 2021, Imbens was awarded half of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences jointly with Joshua Angrist "for their methodological contributions to the analysis of causal relationships." Their work focused on natural experiments, which can offer empirical data in contexts where controlled experimentation may be expensive, time-consuming, or unethical. In 1994 Imbens and Angrist introduced the local average treatment effect (LATE) framework, an influential mathematical methodology for reliably inferring causation from natural experiments that accounted for and defined the limitations of such inferences. Imbens' work with Angrist, together with the work of Alan Krueger and co-recipient of the prize David Card is credited with catalysing the "credibility revolution" in empirical microeconomics.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Guido Imbens (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the 8 of Diamonds
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Cards in Guido W. Imbens's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- 8♦ — Birth Card: The Businessman
- 7♣ — Karma — Environment: The Analytical Creator
- Q♠ — Karma — Displacement: The Wise Guide
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- 3♥ — Life Spread — Venus
- A♣ — Life Spread — Mars
- Q♣ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- 10♠ — Life Spread — Saturn
- 5♣ — Life Spread — Uranus
- 3♦ — Life Spread — Neptune
- A♠ — Life Spread — Pluto
- 7♥ — Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward
Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread
Birth card from the month and day. Karma cards are fixed to the birth card. The planetary ruling card comes from the sun sign's ruling planet — the signs with two rulers carry two. The Life Spread is the birth card's fixed row of nine in the Life Spread — the cards that colour each 52-day period for life. Planetary period and long-range cards move year by year and are not shown on a static page.
Strategic thinking about resources and power
He holds the Applied Econometrics Professorship in Economics at the Stanford Graduate School of Business at Stanford University, where he has taught since 2012.
Paired on value and commerce — the domain ♦ governs in this system. Markers in the record: business, economics.
Other laureates with this card
- Aaron Ciechanover — 2004 Chemistry
- Antony Hewish — 1974 Physics
- Bertha von Suttner — 1905 Peace
- Camillo Golgi — 1906 Physiology or Medicine
- Camilo José Cela — 1989 Literature
- Carl D. Anderson — 1936 Physics
- Daron Acemoglu — 2024 Economic Sciences
- E. Donnall Thomas — 1990 Physiology or Medicine
- Emil von Behring — 1901 Physiology or Medicine
- Fritz Pregl — 1923 Chemistry
- Jimmy Carter — 2002 Peace
- Leonid Vitaliyevich Kantorovich — 1975 Economic Sciences
- 13 more laureates share this card.
FAQ
- What is Guido W. Imbens's birth card?
- The 8 of Diamonds. September 3 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?
- No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast prizes, character, or fate.
- Where do Guido W. Imbens's dates come from?
- Birth date 1963-09-03 is the Nobel Prize API v2.1 day-precision date, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Year-only Nobel dates and Nobel↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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Sources: Nobel Prize API v2.1 (laureate 1009) + Wikidata CC0 (Q16730042) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Guido Imbens). Birth date 1963-09-03 is the Nobel day-precision date, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).