Hmm..seems like I recall someone predicting Janet Yellen not her
husband as the odds-on favorite to win this year :-)
Bill Dickens [FL-based]
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Stiglitz would have liked to get the prize for the Modigliani-Miller
theorem but that one was already taken.
Alex
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I've read that the Academy tends to clump together Nobelists
by topic - the game theory year of Selten, HArsanyi and Nash, for
example. Maybe somebody would take it personally, but they shoudln't.
Fabio
On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, Bryan Caplan wrote:
In a way, isn't dividing the prize 3 ways a
Bryan,
U. A Nobel prize is a slap in the face? I'd certainly turn the other cheek!
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Not that reply by my name sake is quite Woody Allenesque. Who said
economists don't have a sense of humor?
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Bryan
, 2001 3:58 PM
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Subject: Re: 2001 Economic Nobelists
I've read that the Academy tends to clump together Nobelists
by topic - the game theory year of Selten, HArsanyi and Nash, for
example. Maybe somebody would take it personally, but they shoudln't.
Fabio
On Wed, 10 Oct
Stiglitz would have liked to get the prize for the Modigliani-Miller
theorem but that one was already taken.
Alex
Stiglitz also helped develop the Henry-George Theorem.
Joseph Stiglitz, 1977, The Theory of Local Public Goods,
in Economics of Public Services.
Fred Foldvary
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