Wait a second -- they wouldn't have awarded it to Robinson because she was a leftist, but at the same time had no problem with awarding it to a Soviet economist?
--- On Tue, 2/17/09, farmelantj at juno.com <farmelantj at juno.com> wrote:
\ Indeed, Business Week
> published a profile on her, precisely because
> they were expecting her to win the Prize, but
> the Nobel committee, instead, at the last moment,
> awarded it to the Soviet economist, Leonid Kantorovich,
> and the American, Tjalling C. Koopmans, for their
> work in creating linear programming.
>
> Apparently, Robinson despite her contributions
> in such areas as the analysis of imperfect
> competition and capital theory (work which
> was of at least the same caliber as that
> of other economists who did win the Prize)
> was denied it because of her outspoken
> leftist, even Maoist, politics,