Re: Handicapping the 2001 Noble Prize in Economics

[fabio guillermo rojas]

Other nobel prizes have been awarded to individuals that weren't
formally trained. Some literature winners were not fiction writers,
a recent physics went to an engineer and medicine/physiology often
goes to non-MD biologists. If people started thinking contribution
to economic thought, then we might open it up to people in b-schools,
psychologists and others. thne it might get interesting.

Fabio

On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, jim horsman wrote:

> 
> 
> > Not to be picky, (I guess I am) but, isn't Tullock a lawyer by primary
> > credential and training
> 
> sure, but we can define an economist as one who publishes in economic
> journals.  Not too many more prolific than Gordon.
>