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Oliver E. Williamson
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American economist (1932–2020)
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Oliver E. Williamson (1932–2020) was an American economist and university teacher. Born in Superior, he died of pneumonia in Berkeley. He held positions at Yale University, the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Pennsylvania. His academic training included the MIT Sloan School of Management, Stanford Graduate School of Business, and Carnegie Mellon University, where he studied under Richard Cyert.
Williamson’s work focused on microeconomics, contract law, and transactional analysis, with notable contributions to the concept of bounded rationality. He received the Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, the Guggenheim Fellowship, the H. C. Recktenwald Prize in Economics, and the John von Neumann Award. He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Econometric Society.
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Nobel Prize
- The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel2009
“for his analysis of economic governance, especially the boundaries of the firm”
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Oliver
- Family name
- Williamson
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Superior
- Place of death
- Berkeley
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Employer
- University of Pennsylvania
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Notable work
- bounded rationality
- Doctoral advisor
- Richard Cyert
- Field of work
- transactional analysis
- Official website
- groups.haas.berkeley.edu/bpp/oew
- Image
- Nobel Prize 2009-Press Conference KVA-42.jpg
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- Commons category
- Oliver E. Williamson
- date of birth
- 1932-09-27
- member of
- Econometric Society
- name in native language
- Oliver Williamson
- date of death
- 2020-05-21
- cause of death
- pneumonia
- manner of death
- natural causes
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- interested in
- economics
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
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".
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