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Oliver E. Williamson | |
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 Williamson in 2009 | |
| Born | Oliver Eaton Williamson September 27, 1932 Superior, Wisconsin, U.S. |
| Died | May 21, 2020 (aged 87) Berkeley, California, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (BS) Stanford University (MBA) Carnegie Mellon University (PhD) |
| Academic career | |
| Field | Microeconomics |
| Institution | University of California, Berkeley Yale University University of Pennsylvania |
| 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) |
| Information at IDEAS / RePEc | |
| Academic background | |
| Thesis | The economics of discretionary behavior: nonpecuniary objectives in the theory of the firm (1963) |
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]
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]
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- ^ Argyres, Nicholas; Zenger, Todd (2021). "Oliver Williamson and the strategic theory of the firm". Journal of Institutional Economics. 18 (2): 209–217. doi:10.1017/S1744137421000539. ISSN 1744-1374. S2CID 237835868.
- ^ Sent, Esther-Mirjam; Kroese, Annelie L. J. (2021). "Commemorating Oliver Williamson, a founding father of transaction cost economics". Journal of Institutional Economics. 18 (2): 181–193. doi:10.1017/S1744137421000606. hdl:2066/247655. ISSN 1744-1374.
- ^ Maclay, K., UC Berkeley's Oliver Williamson shares Nobel Prize in economics, Haas Newsroom, published 12 October 2009, archived 11 April 2010, accessed 6 July 2023