Oliver E. Williamson's Birth Card: The 10 of Hearts

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Oliver Eaton Williamson (September 27, 1932 – May 21, 2020) was an American economist, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and recipient of the 2009 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, which he shared with Elinor Ostrom. The birth-card coordinate for September 27 is the 10 of Hearts — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2009 Economic Sciences prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 2009 The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel — for his analysis of economic governance, especially the boundaries of the firm

The 10 of Hearts coordinate

Oliver E. Williamson's birthday maps to the 10 of Hearts (The Community Heart). 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 Oliver E. Williamson. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You make room for a lot of people and still keep a self inside the room.

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Oliver E. Williamson in the public record

His contributions to transaction cost economics and the theory of the firm have been influential in the social sciences, law and economics. Williamson described his work as "a blend of soft social science and abstract economic theory". Oliver "Olly" Williamson was born in Superior, Wisconsin, on 27 September 1932. He was the son of Sara Lucille (Dunn) and Scott Williamson, both of whom were high school teachers. As a child, Williamson attended Central High School in Superior. Williamson's dual enrollment between Ripon College and MIT earned him his bachelor's degree in management from the MIT Sloan School of Management in 1955. During his time in his undergraduate academic career, his studies in engineering sparked his initial interest in transaction costs. After graduating, he worked as a project engineer for General Electric, as well as the Central Intelligence Agency.

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Oliver Eaton Williamson (September 27, 1932 – May 21, 2020) was an American economist, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and recipient of the 2009 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, which he shared with Elinor Ostrom.

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Also on the record

1. Williamson received an MBA from Stanford University in 1960, and his PhD from Carnegie Mellon University, formerly Carnegie Tech, in 1963.
2. His dissertation was titled 'The Economics of Discretionary Behaviour: Managerial Objectives in a Theory of the Firm'.
3. A student of Ronald Coase, Herbert A.
4. Simon and Richard Cyert, he specialized in transaction cost economics.

Other laureates with this card

• Arthur B. McDonald — 2015 Physics
• Douglas Diamond — 2022 Economic Sciences
• Esther Duflo — 2019 Economic Sciences
• Grazia Deledda — 1926 Literature
• Heinrich Böll — 1972 Literature
• Hermann J. Muller — 1946 Physiology or Medicine
• Hjalmar Branting — 1921 Peace
• Johannes Diderik van der Waals — 1910 Physics
• Klaus Hasselmann — 2021 Physics
• Martin Ryle — 1974 Physics
• Maurice Maeterlinck — 1911 Literature
• Milton Friedman — 1976 Economic Sciences
• 5 more laureates share this card.

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