Oliver Williamson, born on September 27 1932 in WI, USA, is a professor of the Graduate School and Edgar F. Kaiser Professor Emeritus of Business, Economics, and Law at the University of California, Berkeley. Throughout his career Professor Williamson has been granted a multitude of awards including the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2009 for his theory of why some economic transactions take place within firms and other similar transactions take place between firms.
Professor Williamson's work in the field of Economics has pushed education and our knowledge of how economic governance works. I didn't know who Oliver Williamson was before I was assigned this alias, but after reading about him I believe many areas of his work will be relevant for the economics in this course.
Links:
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economic-sciences/laureates/2009/williamson-facts.html
http://facultybio.haas.berkeley.edu/faculty-list/williamson-oliver/
http://groups.haas.berkeley.edu/bpp/oew/bio.html
Yes, Williamson is a giant in the field and somebody who we will discuss in class. We might also review his Nobel Prize address.
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