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Enter Neuroeconomics…once again.
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An excellent obituary for Leo Hurwicz, by Eric Maskin. Turns out it was indeed great timing to award him the Nobel last year (Hurwicz is the oldest Nobelist to date).
Category: Nobel
My whereabouts
I’ll be less active with blogging these days since I am attending the Society of Labor Economists annual meeting (at Columbia University this year). I’ll present this (preliminary and incomplete; comments very welcome; check my website periodically for updated future versions).
→ Read more Econlinks for 21 Oct ’07
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Preston McAfee brings a second noteworthy innovation to Economic Inquiry (I also blogged about the first one since he came as editor to that journal): “We now have a miscellany section.
And the Econ winners for 2007 are…
…. Leonid Hurwicz, Eric Maskin and Roger Myerson, for “having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory“. See more about this on nobelprize.org. Totally deserved, albeit they were not among the ones with the highest odds this year (so don’t bet next time…).
→ Read more My prediction for the Economics prize tomorrow
All right, here we go, as promised:
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The 2007 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel goes to Oliver Hart, Bengt Holmstrom and Oliver Williamson for their contributions to the theory of the firm.