NAME:Oliver E. WilliamsonMARRIED:Dolores Celeni, 1957
CHILDREN: Scott R. (b. 1958), Tamara E. (b. 1959), Karen L. (b. 1961), Oliver E., Jr. and Dean V. (b. 1967)
PRESENT POSITION
Edgar F. Kaiser Professor Emeritus of Business, Economics and Law, University of California, Berkeley, 1988‑ .
EDUCATION
S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1955.
M.B.A., Stanford University, 1960.
Ph.D., Carnegie‑Mellon University (Economics), 1963.
AWARDS, PRIZES, AND FELLOWSHIPS
Honorary Societies
Fellow, American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1997
Member, National Academy of Sciences, 1994.
Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1983.
Fellow, Econometrics Society, 1977.
AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS (continued)
Prizes
Horst Claus Recktenwald Prize in Economics, 20041983 Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in Law and Economics, Miami University
Ford Foundation Dissertation Prize, 1963.
Honorary Degrees
Doctoris Honoris Causa in Economics, Nice University, 2005.
Doctoris Honoris Causa in Economics, Valencia University, 2004.
Doctoris Honoris Causa in Economics, University of Chile, 2000.
Honorary Doctorate in Economics and Business Administration, Copenhagen Business School, 2000.
Doctoris Honoris Causa, Groupe HEC (Paris), 1997.
Doctoris Honoris Causa in Business Administration, St. Petersburg University, Russia,1997.
Doctoris Honoris Causa in Economics, Turku School of Economics and Business
Administration, 1995.
Doctoris Honoris Causa in Economic Science, Groningen University, 1989.
Doctoris Honoris Causa in Economic Science, Hochschule St. Gallen, 1987.
Oeconomiae Doctorem Honoris Causa, Ph.D., Norwegian School of Economics and
Business Administration, Jubilee Celebration, 1986.
Awards
Distinguished Fellow, American Economic Society, 2007.
Distinguished Fellow, Industrial Organization Society, 2005.

PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
The Economics of Discretionary Behavior:
Managerial Objectives in a Theory of the Firm, Prentice‑Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1964;
reprinted by Markham Publishing Co., Chicago, Illinois, 1967;
reprinted by Eurospan Ltd., 1974;
translated into Japanese and reprinted by Chikura Shobo, 1981;
Chapter 4 is reprinted in Readings of Industrial Economics:
Theoretical Foundations (C.K. Rowley, ed.) London, 1971.
Corporate Control and Business Behavior:
An Inquiry into the Effects of Organization Form on Enterprise Behavior, Prentice‑Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1970; translated into Japanese and reprinted by Maruzen Co., Ltd., 1974.
Markets and Hierarchies:
Analysis and Antitrust Implications, The Free Press, New York, 1975.
Translated into Japanese and reprinted by Nippon Hyoronsha Publishing Company, 1980.
Chapter 2 has been translated into Italian and reprinted in Organizzazione and Mercato (Raoul C.D. Nacamulli and Andrea Rugiadini, ed.), Bologna, 1985, pp. 161‑186.
Translated into Spanish (by Evangelina Nino de la Silva) and reprinted by Fondo de Cultura Economica, 1991.
The Economic Institutions of Capitalism:
Firms, Markets, Relational Contracting, The Free Press, New York, 1985;
translated into Spanish by Eduardo L. Suarez and reprinted by Fondo Cultura Economica, 1989;
translated into Italian by Margherita Turvani, 1987;
translated into German and reprinted by J.C.B. Mohr, 1990;
translated into Russian by Valery Katkalo et al. and published by Lenizdat, 1995; translated into French by Regis Coeurderoy aand Emmanvelle Mainant and published by InterEditions, 1994; translated into Polish and published by Polish Scientific Publishers, 1998; translated into Ukrainian and published by ARTEC, 2000.
The Mechanisms of Governance, Oxford University Press, 1996; translated into Italian by Margherita Turvani, and reprinted by Franco Angeli, 1998; translated into Chinese by Chien Wang et al. and reprinted by China Social Sciences Publishing House, 2001.
EDITED BOOKS
Co‑editor (with Almarin Phillips) and contributor, Prices:
Issues in Theory, Practice, and Public Policy, University of Pennsylvania, 1968.
Editor and contributor, Antitrust Law and Economics, Dame Publishing, Houston, 1980.