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1932–2020 United States

Oliver E. Williamson (September 27, 1932 – May 21, 2020) was an American economist, professor at the University of California, Berkeley and recipient of the 2009 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.

United States
Economists
Nobel laureates

Also known as: Oliver Eaton Williamson, Oliver Williamson

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For those who, like myself, are inclined to be eclectic, no comprehensive commitment to one approach rather than another needs to be made. What is involved, rather, is the selection of the approach best suited to deal with the problems at hand.”

Oliver E. Williamson (1975)

Information impactedness is a derivative condition that arises mainly because of uncertainty and opportunism, though bounded rationality is involved as well. It exists when true underlying circumstances relevant to the transaction, or related set of transactions, are known to one or more parties but cannot be costlessly discerned by or displayed for others.

Oliver E. Williamson (1975)

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