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Changing the subject... Nobel picks?

Posted on October 03, 2008

Still a week to go before the Prize in Economics is announced (the full title is The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel). My pick, as it has been for the last several years, would be Jagdish Bhagwati. Barkley Rosser at Econospeak also lists Bhagwati with Avinash Dixit as one of his likely possibilities. Thomson Reuters has some predictions. Hansen, Sargent, and Sims will likely get their day, but not yet--especially given that Phelps was the choice last year. Alchian and Demsetz would also be a choice that I would happily support.Get your picks in,...

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