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Oliver E. Williamson

1932 - 2020

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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. 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". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Oliver E. Williamson is the 80th most popular economist (down from 61st in 2019), the 1,261st most popular biography from United States (down from 869th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular American Economist. Learn more about Oliver E. Williamson's academic impact at Rankless.

Oliver e. williamson is most famous for his book "The Economic Institutions of Capitalism" which was published in 1985.

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Among economists, Oliver E. Williamson ranks 80 out of 414. Before him are James Tobin, Robert Solow, Murray Rothbard, Finn E. Kydland, Beatrice Webb, and Tjalling Koopmans. After him are Albert O. Hirschman, James M. Buchanan, Cornelius Castoriadis, Eugen Dühring, William Stanley Jevons, and Irving Fisher.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, Oliver E. Williamson ranks 64. Before him are Robert Mundell, Hiroaki Sato, Ted Kennedy, Stephen Covey, Robert Benton, and Stéphane Audran. After him are Robert Vaughn, Tomohiko Ikoma, Donald Rumsfeld, Francis Lai, John Updike, and Renato Martino. Among people deceased in 2020, Oliver E. Williamson ranks 51. Before him are Bill Gates Sr., Qasem Soleimani, Jack Steinberger, Masatoshi Koshiba, Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, and Nexhmije Hoxha. After him are Christopher Tolkien, George Steiner, Zafarullah Khan Jamali, Kim Ki-duk, Lucia Bosè, and Georg Ratzinger.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Oliver E. Williamson ranks 1,261 out of 20,380. Before him are Raymond Moody (1944), E. O. Wilson (1929), John Dickinson (1732), Jim Jones (1931), Richard Rorty (1931), and Neale Donald Walsch (1943). After him are Vincent J. McMahon (1914), Mickey Rourke (1952), Robert Vaughn (1932), Burt Young (1940), Winona Ryder (1971), and Robert Smith (1757).

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Among ECONOMISTS In United States

Among economists born in United States, Oliver E. Williamson ranks 23. Before him are Lawrence Klein (1920), Kenneth Arrow (1921), Thorstein Veblen (1857), James Tobin (1918), Robert Solow (1924), and Murray Rothbard (1926). After him are James M. Buchanan (1919), Irving Fisher (1867), Robert Reich (1946), Harry Markowitz (1927), George Stigler (1911), and Claudia Goldin (1946).

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