Here is some more information on the possible Nobel winners in economics from Tyler Cowen and the guys at the Cheap Talk blog. Cowen picks the trifecta of Fama, Shiller, and Richard Thaler.
The Cheap Talkers show us the picks from the Kellogg School’s annual pool, which has Oliver Hart (of Grossman & Hart and Hart & Moore fame) and Jean Tirole (of Tirole fame) as odds-on favorites. However, the bloggers note the IO bias at Kellogg, and provide a far more sophisticated assessment:
While I think all these researchers will get this prize eventually, their age works against them – they are too young. they did seminal work at a time when Duran Duran ruled the airwaves or perhaps the Smiths in the case of Tirole. The Nobel Committee is still sorting out the time when ABBA was Number One and Bjorn Borg won Wimbledon. (Note Swedish influence on pop culture was high in the 1970s!)
Indeed.
Though, I don’t think The Smiths ever “ruled” the airwaves.
Here’s the previous post. Make your picks in the comments thread or yell them at me as I walk by you at the WCC.