Theodore W. Schultz's Birth Card: The 4 of Clubs

In the record

Theodore William Schultz ( SHUULTS; 30 April 1902 – 26 February 1998) was an American agricultural economist and chairman of the University of Chicago Department of Economics. The birth-card coordinate for April 30 is the 4 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1979 Economic Sciences prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1979 The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel — for their pioneering research into economic development research with particular consideration of the problems of developing countries

The 4 of Clubs coordinate

Theodore W. Schultz's birthday maps to the 4 of Clubs (The Systematic Builder). 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 Theodore W. Schultz. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You put knowledge into an order other people can actually use.

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Theodore W. Schultz in the public record

Schultz rose to national prominence after winning the 1979 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. Theodore William Schultz was born on April 30, 1902, in a small town ten miles northwest of Badger, South Dakota, on a 560-acre farm. When Schultz was in the eighth grade, his father Henry decided to pull him out of attending Kingsbury County Schoolhouse. His father's view was that if his eldest son continued to get an education he would be less inclined to continue working on the farm. Schultz subsequently did not have any formal post-secondary education. He eventually enrolled in the Agriculture College at South Dakota State, in a three-year program that met for four months a year during the winter. After being recognized for possessing great potential as a student, Schultz moved on to a bachelor's program, earning his degree in 1927 in agriculture and economics. He also received an honorary doctorate of science degree from the college in 1959.

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

Where the record meets the 6 of Hearts

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Integrating genuine care with healthy boundaries

His conclusion was that the speed of recovery was due to a healthy and highly educated population; education makes people productive and good health care keeps the education investment around and able to produce.

Paired on shared wording: care, healthy.

Also on the record

1. He graduated in 1927, then entered the University of Wisconsin–Madison earning his doctorate in Agricultural Economics in 1930 under Benjamin H.
2. Hibbard with a thesis, titled The Tariff in Relation to the Coarse-Feed Grains and a Development of Some of the Theoretical Aspects of Tariff Price Research.
3. Schultz taught at Iowa State College from 1930 to 1943.
4. He left Iowa State in the wake of the "oleomargarine controversy", and he served as the chair of economics at the University of Chicago from 1946 to 1961.

Other laureates with this card

• Craig C. Mello — 2006 Physiology or Medicine
• Edward Tatum — 1958 Physiology or Medicine
• Ernesto Teodoro Moneta — 1907 Peace
• Henri Bergson — 1927 Literature
• Henrik Pontoppidan — 1917 Literature
• José Saramago — 1998 Literature
• Nicolay G. Basov — 1964 Physics
• Patrick White — 1973 Literature
• Pearl Buck — 1938 Literature
• Robert C. Richardson — 1996 Physics
• Simon Kuznets — 1971 Economic Sciences
• Stanley B. Prusiner — 1997 Physiology or Medicine

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