"Nobel" prize in Econ.

[Picciotto, Sol]

According to the Financial Times, the Nobel prize fund has been badly hit by the plunging
markets, so there may not be enough cash in the pot to hand out. Maybe they should have a
moratorium on the Economics prize this year, as its previous winners seem to have suffered a
collision with reality.

cheers

sol


> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Rosser Jr, John Barkley [SMTP:rosserjb at jmu.edu]
> Sent:	Friday, October 09, 1998 7:57 PM
> To:	lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> Cc:	lbo-talk at lists.panix.com; pen-l at galaxy.csuchico.edu
> Subject:	Re: "Nobel" prize in Econ.
> 
>      Well, Berlecon has been doing polling and finds 
> Amartya Sen well in front as the leading choice.  Given 
> that people are eating bark in Indonesia right now, he 
> looks like the person to beat for this year.
> Barkley Rosser
> On Thu, 08 Oct 1998 15:00:36 -0700 James Devine 
> <jdevine at popmail.lmu.edu> wrote:
> 
> > who's going to win the so-called "Nobel" prize in Economics this year? Any
> > bets?
> > 
> > I think they should give it to those two finance guys again, as a
> > consolation prize.
> > 
> > Jim Devine jdevine at popmail.lmu.edu &
> > http://clawww.lmu.edu/Departments/ECON/jdevine.html
> > 
> 
> -- 
> Rosser Jr, John Barkley
> rosserjb at jmu.edu
>