Re: Handicapping the 2001 Noble Prize in Economics
On Friday, September 21, 2001 9:27 PM fabio guillermo rojas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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. Of course, there's no need to wait for the Nobel people to do that. You can always just form another award and hand that out on the criteria you feel are more relevant. I believe there are too many awards and too many awards ceremonies. I'm more interested in the work then the award or the awards process. I guess they are signaling devices, but some of them seem woefully distorted and I wonder what they really signal. (The Nobel Prize might be one of the better ones, in terms of this, BUT look at who gets the peace prize. In the past decade or so, it looks more like a popularity contest than anything else.) Cheers! Daniel Ust http://uweb.superlink.net/neptune/
Re: Handicapping the 2001 Noble Prize in Economics
Tullock's degree is in law, but almost all of his countless publications are in economics. -- Prof. Bryan Caplan Department of Economics George Mason University http://www.bcaplan.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'When a man thinks he's good - *that's* when he's rotten. Pride is the worst of all sins, no matter what's he's done.' 'But if a man knows that what he's done is good?' 'Then he ought to apologize for it.' 'To whom?' 'To those who haven't done it.' -- Ayn Rand, *Atlas Shrugged*
Re: Handicapping the 2001 Noble Prize in Economics
Nash, a mathematician, has won. - Original Message - From: fabio guillermo rojas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Saturday, September 22, 2001 0:27 am Subject: Re: Handicapping the 2001 Noble Prize in Economics 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.
