Oliver E. Williamson - Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel — 2009
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Oliver E. Williamson

Prize
Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel — 2009
for his analysis of economic governance, especially the boundaries of the firm
Together with: Elinor Ostrom
Citizenship
United States United States
Languages
English
date of birth
9/27/1932
place of birth
Superior
date of death
5/21/2020
place of death
Berkeley
Lived
87 years

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educated at
  • Stanford Graduate School of Business
    • academic degree: Master of Business Administration
  • MIT Sloan School of Management
    • academic degree: bachelor's degree
  • Carnegie Mellon University
    • academic degree: Doctor of Philosophy
    • doctoral advisor: Richard Cyert
  • Superior High School
  • Tepper School of Business
member of
  • Econometric Society
    • start time: 1976
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • National Academy of Sciences
occupation
  • university teacher
  • economist
doctoral student
  • Vai-Lam Mui
  • Kyle Jay Mayer
  • Tetsuo Wada
  • Nicholas Samuel Argyres
  • Jackson Nickerson
notable work
  • bounded rationality
  • Theory of transaction costs
employer
  • University of California, Berkeley
  • Yale University
  • University of Pennsylvania
field of work
  • contract law
  • transactional analysis
  • microeconomics
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