Hubert Fromlet: Who wins the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2009?
05 Oct 2009 | Posted By: JIBS Stories
It is, as usual, hard to predict the next winner of the Nobel Prize in economics. The method should be to identify certain research areas that are – or should be – on the “waiting list” and then to find some outstanding pioneers in these fields. The guess has to be done in this order. Areas that could be particularly interesting this year are modern growth theory, theory of firms, theory of incentives, labor market and finance – and as always – certain important macro- and microeconomic methodological breakthroughs.
However, I would not rule out economic research topics with interdisciplinary links to sociology, psychology or politics. Most text of this article is written in Swedish – but foreign readers will be provided with headlines in English above the two specific tables with my own favorite candidates (at the end of this paper). Most candidates come again from the U.S. If the award goes to Europe, the French economist Jean Tirole (Toulouse) should be the most probable candidate. And I continue to plead for Assar Lindbeck as a very good candidate.
Read the full text at Professor Fromlet’s blog (in Swedish)
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