Nobel Prize for Economics 2010
Safe choices for Nobel Economics Prize:
William Nordhaus (Yale) and Martin Weitzman (Harvard) fo their work on Environmental Economics.
Perennial choices:
Eugene F. Fama and Kenneth R. French
Robert J. Barro
Jagdish N. Bhagwati and Avinash K. Dixit
Lars P. Hansen and Thomas J. Sargent, and Christopher A. Sims;
Martin S. Feldstein; Armen A. Alchian and Harold Demsetz
Dale W. Jorgenson; Oliver D. Hart and Bengt R. Holmstrom
Elhanan Helpman and Gene M. Grossman; Jean Tirole; Robert B. Wilson and Paul R. Milgrom
New choices:
Robert Shiller,
Paul Michael Romer
Richard H. Thaler
Kevin M. Murphy (Chicago): pioneering empirical research in social economics, including wage inequality and labor demand, unemployment, addiction, and the economic return of investment in medical research, among other topics .
Ernst Fehr and Matthew J. Rabin;
John B. Taylor and Jordi Gali and Mark L. Gertler
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