Interview with the 2009 Laureates in Economic Sciences Elinor Ostrom and Oliver E. Williamson, 6 December 2009. The interviewer is Adam Smith, Editor-in-Chief of Nobelprize.org.

I was born in Superior, Wisconsin on September 27, 1932 as the second child of Scott and Lucille Williamson. Both of my parents had been high school teachers but my father left teaching when he married my mother and joined my grandfather, Oliver E. Dunn, in the family real estate business. My...

Oliver E. Williamson delivered his Prize Lecture on 8 December 2009 at Aula Magna, Stockholm University. He was introduced by Professor Bertil Holmlund, Chairman of the Economic Sciences Prize Committee.