Oliver E. Williamson
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 |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (BS) Stanford University (MBA) Carnegie Mellon University (PhD) |
| Thesis | The economics of discretionary behavior: nonpecuniary objectives in the theory of the firm (1963) |
| Influences | Kenneth Arrow Chester Barnard Ronald Coase Richard Cyert Friedrich Hayek Ian Roderick Macneil Herbert A. Simon John R. Commons |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Microeconomics |
| School or tradition | New Institutional Economics |
| Institutions | University of California, Berkeley Yale University University of Pennsylvania |
| Awards | John von Neumann Award (1999) Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2009) |
| Website | |
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".