Readers & Thinkers: The 2000 Nobel Prize in Economics. Prediction
Dear All: Tomorrow morning is the announcment of the Nobel prize in economics. Please send your votes to ideas@foliofn.com by midnight tonight! Ludwig will take the winner out to lunch. Ludwig’s Guesses: I think the Nobel prize will be given in one of the following categories: (1) IO/Theory (2) Public Economics (3) Experimental Economics (4) Econometrics. Labor is also a possibility. For (1), I think the candidates are: Peter Diamond, George Akerlof, Michael Spence, and Joe Stiglitz (in order of likelihood). Oliver Hart would be a...
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