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John R. Hicks's Birth Card: The King of Diamonds

1972 Economic Sciences

Born April 8, 1904

Died May 20, 1989

The Wealthy King

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In the record

Sir John Richard Hicks (8 April 1904 – 20 May 1989) was a British economist. The birth-card coordinate for April 8 is the King of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1972 Economic Sciences prize.

Nobel Prize record

1972 — The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel

“for their pioneering contributions to general economic equilibrium theory and welfare theory”

Prize motivation, NobelPrize.org

Shared with Kenneth J. Arrow (3♣). The award was divided; this laureate's listed portion is 1/2.

93 other Economic Sciences laureates in this set carry a birth-card coordinate.

The King of Diamonds coordinate

John R. Hicks's birthday maps to the King of Diamonds (The Wealthy King). 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 John R. Hicks. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You run the system and you can show your work.

Live King of Diamonds meaning page

John R. Hicks in the public record

He is considered one of the most important and influential economists of the twentieth century. The most familiar of his many contributions in the field of economics were his statement of consumer demand theory in microeconomics, and the IS–LM model (1937), which summarised a Keynesian view of macroeconomics. His book Value and Capital (1939) significantly extended general-equilibrium and value theory. The compensated demand function is named the Hicksian demand function in memory of him. In 1972 he received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (jointly) for his pioneering contributions to general equilibrium theory and welfare theory. Hicks was born in 1904 in Warwick, England, and was the son of Edward Hicks, editor and part proprietor of the Warwick and Leamington Spa Courier newspaper, and Dorothy Catherine, née Stephens, daughter of a non-conformist minister. He was educated at Clifton College (1917–1922) and at Balliol College, Oxford (1922–1926), and was financed by mathematical scholarships. During his school days and in his first year at Oxford, he specialised in mathematics but also had interests in literature and history.

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

Where the record meets the King of Diamonds

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Cards in John R. Hicks's fixed path

Birth card and karma

Life Spread (Mercury → 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.

Natural authority and command over resources

K♦ — Birth Card, from the published King of Diamonds meaning

Sir John Richard Hicks (8 April 1904 – 20 May 1989) was a British economist.

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

Also on the record

  1. In 1923, he moved to Philosophy, Politics and Economics, the "new school" that was just being started at Oxford.
  2. He graduated with second-class honours and, as he stated, "no adequate qualification in any of the subjects" that he had studied.
  3. From 1926 to 1935, Hicks lectured at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
  4. He started as a labour economist and did descriptive work on industrial relations but gradually, he moved over to the analytical side, where his mathematics background returned to the fore.

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FAQ

What is John R. Hicks's birth card?
The King of Diamonds. April 8 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 John R. Hicks's dates come from?
Birth date 1904-04-08 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 681) + Wikidata CC0 (Q184862) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (John Hicks). Birth date 1904-04-08 is the Nobel day-precision date, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).