# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
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# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:21:14.060Z

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name: "Oliver E. Williamson"
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description: "Oliver Eaton 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."
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birthDate: "1932-09-27"
deathDate: "2020-05-21"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump