Oliver E. Williamson (1932-2020)  *87

Oliver E. Williamson 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 transaction costs theories are influential in the social sciences. Williamson was born in Superior, Wisconsin, the son of Sara Lucille (Dunn) and Scott Williamson. A student of Ronald Coase, Herbert A. Simon and Richard Cyert, he specialized in transaction cost economics. Williamson attended Central High School in Superior. He received his B.S. in management from the MIT Sloan School of Management in 1955, MBA from Stanford University in 1960, and his Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University in 1963. From 1965 to 1983 he was a professor at the University of Pennsylvania and from 1983 to 1988, Gordon B. Tweedy Professor of Economics of Law and Organization at Yale University. He held professorships in business administration, economics, and law at the University of California, Berkeley since 1988 and was the Edgar F. Kaiser Professor Emeritus at the Haas School of Business. As a Fulbright Distinguished Chair, in 1999 he taught Economics at the University of Siena.

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