Will Krugman Win the Nobel Prize in Economics Tomorrow?

[Cheney Killed Bambi]

The Nobel Prize in Economics will be announced around 1:00pm tomorrow Stockholm time. NYT columnist Paul Krugman is a perennial contender and could certainly be the winner.

I hope he wins, just so I can watch Neal Cavuto's head explode!

:rofl:

[noahmijo]

1. Damn I didn't know Krugman was up for it!

If so that would so rock. Seriously ever notice it's always left leaning people that win the highly coveted Nobel Prize in Economics?

[eallen]

2. Hayek? Friedman?

[noahmijo]

3. Actually I was thinking John Nash, Bill Clinton...

[muriel_volestrangler]

5. Bill Clinton? Are you sure you're not thinking of Jed Bartlet? (n/t)

[noahmijo]

8. Ah his name came to mind actually but I do stand corrected

Clinton was NOMINATED for the Nobel Prize in Econ but never awarded it.

I was going to mention Jed as a joke though ;)

[muriel_volestrangler]

11. Someone seriously nominated Clinton for the Economics prize?

Wow, they obviously didn't understand what it's about. Are you sure that wasn't the joke?

[noahmijo]

12. Nope this one I can back up

Clinton nominated for Nobel prize
REUTERS
OSLO, Jan 28: United States President Bill Clinton, engulfed in a sex scandal and fighting for his political life, won a nomination for the 1998 Nobel Peace Prize on Tuesday.

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http://www.expressindia.com/ie/daily/19980129/02950374.html
Clinton nominated for Nobel prize

[muriel_volestrangler]

13. PEACE prize. Not economics

That's the point - politicians are often nominated for the peace prize (and I think that's the only prize for which nominations are actually made public), but only economists (or related academics, like mathematicians) get the economics prize. You don't get the economics prize for just being president of one country when its economy does well.

[eallen]

7. Note also there are few economists who advocate socialism.

Economists tend to be realists. There are some market fundamentalists, and some socialists, but the vast majority are neither.

[drbtg1]

10. We don't know about any confirmed nominations.

from http://nobelprize.org/nomination_facts.html

"Information about the nominations, investigations, and opinions concerning the award is kept secret for fifty years."

[Neil Lisst]

4. Krugman rules!!

I love Paul Krugman. He's been on top of the economy the past few years, and has correctly called the Bush admin on its various economic failures.

He busted O'Reilly's balls, too.


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[cassiepriam]

6. A true Profiles in Courage man. nt

[TahitiNut]

9. Already awarded: Robert J. Aumann and Thomas C. Schelling

Press Release: The Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2005

10 October 2005

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, 2005, jointly to

Robert J. Aumann
Center for Rationality, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel and

Thomas C. Schelling
Department of Economics and School of Public Policy, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA,

"for having enhanced our understanding of conflict and cooperation through game-theory analysis".

http://nobelprize.org/economics/laureates/2005/press.html