Nash, a mathematician, has won.
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From: fabio guillermo rojas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Saturday, September 22, 2001 0:27 am
Subject: Re: Handicapping the 2001 Noble Prize in Economics
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> 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
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> On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, jim horsman wrote:
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> > > 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.
> >
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