Tagged: nobels

Nobel 2013 - The Dismal Science

Eric Crampton • Oct 15, 2013 •

• Nobel Prize,
• nobels

Eugene Fama, Lars Peter Hansen and Robert Shiller won this year’s Nobel in Economics. If you ask an economist for stock portfolio advice, he’ll likely tell you to get a diversified index fund with low management fees because picking winners is awfully hard. How do we know this? Eugene Fama. Here’s Alex Tabarrok on Fama: As an undergraduate Fama … Read More

The Shapley-Roth Nobel - The Dismal Science

Eric Crampton • Oct 15, 2012 •

• Al Roth,
• Gordon Tullock,
• nobels,
• Sciblogs

Alvin Roth and Lloyd Shapley won this year's Economics Nobel. The prize was awarded "for the theory of stable allocations and the practice of market design". The Swedish Academy has awarded a few prizes in game theory and mechanism design recently,*... Read More