Ragnar Frisch's Birth Card: The 7 of Spades

In the record

Ragnar Anton Kittil Frisch (3 March 1895 – 31 January 1973) was an influential Norwegian economist and econometrician known for being one of the major contributors to establishing economics as a quantitative and statistically informed science in the early 20th century. The birth-card coordinate for March 3 is the 7 of Spades — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1969 Economic Sciences prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1969 The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel — for having developed and applied dynamic models for the analysis of economic processes

The 7 of Spades coordinate

Ragnar Frisch's birthday maps to the 7 of Spades (The Questioning Mind). 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 Ragnar Frisch. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You study the hard pattern until you can name it, then you do the next honest thing.

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Ragnar Frisch in the public record

He coined the term econometrics in 1926 for utilising statistical methods to describe economic systems, as well as the terms microeconomics and macroeconomics in 1933, for describing individual and aggregate economic systems, respectively. He was the first to develop a statistically informed model of business cycles in 1933. Later work on the model, together with Jan Tinbergen, won the first Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1969. Frisch became dr.philos. with a thesis on mathematics and statistics at the University of Oslo in 1926. After his doctoral thesis, he spent five years researching in the United States at the University of Minnesota and Yale University. After teaching briefly at Yale from 1930–31, he was offered a full professorship in economics, which he declined after pressures by colleagues to return to the University of Oslo. After returning to Oslo, Frisch was first appointed by the King-in-Council as Professor of Economics and Statistics at the Faculty of Law, University of Oslo (then the Royal Frederick University) in 1931, before becoming leader of the newly founded Institute of Economics at the University of Oslo in 1932. He remained at the University of Oslo until his retirement in 1965.

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

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Ragnar Anton Kittil Frisch (3 March 1895 – 31 January 1973) was an influential Norwegian economist and econometrician known for being one of the major contributors to establishing economics as a quantitative and statistically informed science in the early 20th century.

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

Also on the record

1. Frisch was one of the founders of the Econometric Society in 1930, and edited the journal Econometrica for its first 21 years.
2. He has given name to the Frisch Medal, which is awarded every year by the Econometric Society for the best paper in econometrics published in the last five years, as well as the Frisch-centre for Applied Economic Analysis at the University of Oslo.
3. The Grand Auditorium at the Institute of Economics, University of Oslo also bears his name.

Other laureates with this card

• Alan Hodgkin — 1963 Physiology or Medicine
• Arthur Kornberg — 1959 Physiology or Medicine
• Claude Cohen-Tannoudji — 1997 Physics
• John E. Walker — 1997 Chemistry
• Joseph E. Murray — 1990 Physiology or Medicine
• Richard Zsigmondy — 1925 Chemistry
• Robert Hofstadter — 1961 Physics
• Wangari Maathai — 2004 Peace

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What is Ragnar Frisch's birth card?

The 7 of Spades. March 3 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

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