Re: Handicapping the 2001 Noble Prize in Economics

[dmitche4]

I'd love to see Tullock or Smith.  My prediction is that the winner 
will be some obscure person.  Not a single one of us will be able to 
think of what he's done.

Mitch

----- Original Message -----
From: Bryan Caplan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thursday, September 20, 2001 2:37 pm
Subject: Re: Handicapping the 2001 Noble Prize in Economics

> My wish (not prediction): Joint prize for Anne Krueger and Gordon
> Tullock for rent-seeking.
> -- 
>                        Prof. Bryan Caplan                
>       Department of Economics      George Mason University
>        http://www.bcaplan.com      [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
>  "Familiar as the voice of the mind is to each, the highest merit 
> we 
>   ascribe to Moses, Plato, and Milton is, that they set at naught 
>   books and traditions, and spoke not what men but what *they* 
>   thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of 
>   light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the 
>   lustre of the firmament of bards and sages." 
>                --Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self-Reliance"
>