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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.
Month: October 2007
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.
Quote for week 7th-13th of October ’07
In order to cure most ills of human life, I require not that man should have the wings of the eagle, the swiftness of the stag, the force of the ox, the arms of the lion, the scales of the crocodile or rhinoceros; much less do I demand the sagacity of an angel or cherubim.
→ Read more Nobel Econ odds
The most important Nobel prize will be announced on Monday. Now, if you did not already bet in the “Harvard pool” (at the very end of the day I didn’t bet there for a most silly reason: I could not find in the whole of DK a 1$ bill to mail with my proposal :-)), here you can see other betting pools and the predictions of Thomson ISI.
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