Re: Nobels

2004-09-22 Thread Robert A. Book
http://www.nobelpreisboerse.de/stocks.aspx?stc=6 A fun-money stock market in economics nobel prize winners. Barro's currently in the lead, followed by Krugman, Prescott, Williamson, and Fama. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that my stock in Tullock pays off Krugman? Egads

Re: Nobels

2004-09-22 Thread Eric Crampton
Remember that it's a fun-money market, so people's expressive preferences have free reign. I think it's exceedingly unlikely he'll be tapped given how political a choice he'd be about now; however, the same thing makes him pretty expressively appealing. Not that it's a bad thing to have

Nobels

2002-10-10 Thread Eric Crampton
This is a rough look at which schools currently have Nobel prize winners on faculty. Do I have any of these wrong? Any additions that need to be made? If this is right, then GMU ties for the 5th highest number of Nobel winners. Eric -- Chicago: 6 Friedman, Coase, Becker, Fogel, Lucas,

Re: Nobels

2002-10-10 Thread William Dickens
I think Harsanyi is still at Berkeley. Also, I think Friedman is now at Stanford. - - Bill William T. Dickens The Brookings Institution 1775 Massachusetts Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20036 Phone: (202) 797-6113 FAX: (202) 797-6181 E-MAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AOL IM: wtdickens [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Nobels

2002-10-10 Thread Bryan Caplan
Princeton econ really has 0. Kahneman is in the psych department, and Nash is a senior research mathematician. -- Prof. Bryan Caplan Department of Economics George Mason University http://www.bcaplan.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] He

Re: Nobels

2002-10-10 Thread Chris Rasch
I'd be curious to know where the researchers were when they actually did the work for which they won the prize. For example, Smith was at Purdue when he began doing experiments in experimental economics. http://reason.com/hod/fe.ml.smith.shtml I think Harsanyi is still at Berkeley.

Nobels

2002-10-09 Thread sjostrom
The Nobel is out: Kahneman and Smith for experimental economics. Do we have an insider on the list? Check out the details at www.nobel.se Bill Sjostrom

Re: Nobels

2002-10-09 Thread AdmrlLocke
In a message dated 10/9/02 5:36:46 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Since I did not cash in on my Nobel prediction this is sufficient evidence I'm NOT an insider. :-) Unless of course you simply pretended not to know in order to fool us into believing that you're not an insider. ;)

Re: Ig Nobels

2002-10-09 Thread john hull
This year's Ig Nobel prizes have been announced as well, www.improb.com/ig/ig-pastwinners.html#ig2002: The 2002 Ig Nobel Prize Winners BIOLOGY Norma E. Bubier, Charles G.M. Paxton, Phil Bowers, and D. Charles Deeming of the United Kingdom, for their report Courtship Behaviour of Ostriches