>On second thought, maybe that makes him eminently qualified
>> for the Nobel!
>>
>> Doug
>
>They've given the Nobel to folks (e.g. Amartya Sen) we (presumably) all
>like, haven't they?
Yeah. I was just being a wiseass. But the have been some hum-dingers:
<http://www.nobel.se/economics/laureates/index.html>
2002 Daniel Kahneman, Vernon L. Smith 2001 George A. Akerlof, A. Michael Spence, Joseph E. Stiglitz 2000 James J. Heckman, Daniel L. McFadden 1999 Robert A. Mundell 1998 Amartya Sen 1997 Robert C. Merton, Myron S. Scholes 1996 James A. Mirrlees, William Vickrey 1995 Robert E. Lucas Jr. 1994 John C. Harsanyi, John F. Nash Jr., Reinhard Selten 1993 Robert W. Fogel, Douglass C. North 1992 Gary S. Becker 1991 Ronald H. Coase 1990 Harry M. Markowitz, Merton H. Miller, William F. Sharpe 1989 Trygve Haavelmo 1988 Maurice Allais 1987 Robert M. Solow 1986 James M. Buchanan Jr. 1985 Franco Modigliani 1984 Richard Stone 1983 Gerard Debreu 1982 George J. Stigler 1981 James Tobin 1980 Lawrence R. Klein 1979 Theodore W. Schultz, Sir Arthur Lewis 1978 Herbert A. Simon 1977 Bertil Ohlin, James E. Meade 1976 Milton Friedman 1975 Leonid Vitaliyevich Kantorovich, Tjalling C. Koopmans 1974 Gunnar Myrdal, Friedrich August von Hayek 1973 Wassily Leontief 1972 John R. Hicks, Kenneth J. Arrow 1971 Simon Kuznets 1970 Paul A. Samuelson 1969 Ragnar Frisch, Jan Tinbergen