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Williamson, Oliver E. (Born 1932)

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Oliver E. Williamson is the 2009 co-recipient (with Elinor Ostrom) of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics, awarded ‘for his analysis of economic governance, especially the boundaries of the firm’.

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    Scott E. Masten

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Masten, S.E. (2018). Williamson, Oliver E. (Born 1932). In: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95189-5_2910

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