Oliver E. Williamson
American economist (1932–2020) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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.[1]
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Born | Oliver Eaton Williamson (1932-09-27)September 27, 1932 Superior, Wisconsin, U.S. |
Died | May 21, 2020(2020-05-21) (aged 87) Berkeley, California, U.S. |
Nationality | American |
Education | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (BS) Stanford University (MBA) Carnegie Mellon University (PhD) |
Academic career | |
Institution | University of California, Berkeley Yale University University of Pennsylvania |
Field | Microeconomics |
School or tradition | New Institutional Economics |
Influences | Kenneth Arrow Chester Barnard Ronald Coase Richard Cyert Friedrich Hayek Ian Roderick Macneil Herbert A. Simon John R. Commons |
Awards | John von Neumann Award (1999) Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2009) |
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His contributions to transaction cost economics and the theory of the firm have been influential in the social sciences,[2][3][4] law and economics. Williamson described his work as "a blend of soft social science and abstract economic theory".[5]