Autobiography

Oliver E. Williamson

No 2009-7, Nobel Prize in Economics documents from Nobel Prize Committee

Abstract: I was born in Superior, Wisconsin on September 27, 1932 as the second child of Scott and Lucille Williamson. Both of my parents had been high school teachers but my father left teaching when he married my mother and joined my grandfather, Oliver E. Dunn, in the family real estate business. My father was a successful small businessman and active participant in the life of the community, culminating with nine years of service as President of the Superior City Council. My mother had been the principal of the small high school in Minnesota where my parents met. The prevailing rule on married women required that my mother retire from teaching, but her knowledge of the subject matter was undiminished. Her recall of Latin after 20 years was such that she could have resumed teaching where she left off on a moment's notice

Keywords: transaction costs (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D70 H10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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