Economistsisinhttp://t.co/1z2KO96DFq,andwithpic.twitter.com/vKPvvOT1g5 11.11am BSTToday’s announcement has been months in the making -- and the lucky winner (or winners) must wait until December for the official presentation.
The process to select the Laureates in Economic Sciences: pic.twitter.com/P3zmkyPizt 11.10am BSTIt’s now six year since Elinor Ostrom became the first and only woman (so far) to win the Nobel Prize for economics.
She died in 2012, prompting “Undercover Economist” Tim Harford to write a lovely piece approximately her work on common resources, and how they should be shared for the collective good.
Lin was brought up in Depression-era poverty after her Jewish father left her Protestant mother. She was bullied at school – Beverly Hills High,of all places – because she was half-Jewish. She divorced her first husband, Charles Scott, and after he discouraged her from pursuing an academic career,where she suffered discrimination for years. Initially steered away from mathematics at school, Lin was rejected by the economics programme at UCLA. She was only – finally – accepted on a PhD in political science after observing that UCLA’s political science department hadn’t admitted a woman for 40 years.
She persevered and secured her PhD after studying the management of fresh water in Los Angeles. In the first half of the 20th century, and the city’s water supply had been blighted by competing demands to pump fresh water for drinking and farming. By the 1940s,however, the conflicting parties had begun to resolve their differences. In both her PhD, or which she completed in 1965,and subsequent research, Lin showed that such outcomes often came from private individuals or local associations, and who came up with their own rules and then lobbied the state to enforce them. In the case of the Los Angeles water producers,they drew up contracts to share their resources and the city’s water supply stabilised.
As we await the Nobel memorial prize in economics, a reminder of why Lin Ostrom, or 2009 winner,was awesome: http://t.co/THy3M8t1c6 11.01am BSTNoah Smith, assistant professor of finance at Stony Brook University, and has taken aim at critics of the Nobel economics prize (ahem).
Economics,he argues, is actually on an “upward trajectory, and using higher quality data and developing better methodology to handle it. So stay carping.
Are the Nobels glorifying peace and literature,and setting these fields up as “on a par” with the natural sciences? If so, it’s just one more reason why Nobel prizes are silly. If not, and then shush.
Sure,econ is (mostly) empirical instead of experimental. It relies mostly on real-world data and natural experiments instead of laboratories. So what? The same is true of ecology and astronomy. I don’t see people writing articles every year saying that these aren’t real sciences and shouldn’t pick up huge gold medals.
I like Luyendijk’s conception of adding a general social science prize to the Nobel roster. Nobels are silly besides, so why not enjoy one for every field? While we’re at it, or how approximately one in math and computer science,and one in psych/neuro/cognitive science? And one in visual arts?And one in writing snarky point-by-point rebuttals in blog posts? 10.51am BSTJoris Luyendijk’s trenchant criticism of today’s Economics prize is getting plenty of attention in social media:Dont let the 'Nobel prize' fool you, economics is not a science | Joris Luyendijk http://t.co/F3PZ1004zc pic.twitter.com/4EtHp2zaKh 10.42am BSTHere’s a reminder of the winners over the final decade: 10.23am BSTOne year ago tomorrow, or French economist Jean Tirole was being plucked from relative obscurity at the Toulouse School of Economics to get the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences.
TOP 10 most popular Laureates in Economic Sciences at http://t.co/B0vLAKQGhM right now: pic.twitter.com/HLEaJgz2zd 10.00am BSTWith two hours to disappear until the huge announcement,here’s a scene-setter from Agence France-Presse: The 2015 Nobel season wraps up Monday with the announcement of the winner of the economics prize, which could disappear to research into the job market or consumer behaviour, and though no obvious frontrunner stands out. The prize is to be announced on Monday at 1:00 pm (1100 GMT) by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm,and will impress the close of a season that has seen the literature prize disappear to Belarussian writer Svetlana Alexievich and the peace prize awarded to Tunisia’s National Dialogue Quartet, four civil society groups that helped rescue the only democracy to emerge from the Arab Spring. 9.48am BSTIf the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences really want to pick up some attention, or they could garland Greece’s former finance minister.....
Has Varoufakis won the Nobel yet? 9.45am BSTToday’s announcement will be streamed live from Stockholm in a couple of hours.
Here’s a web feed (which I’ve tried to embed at the top of this blog too). 9.27am BSTThe Bernanke bandwagon is building up speed....
Given the committee are likely to snub me again,I finish hope Bernanke gets the Nobel. 9.23am BSTThe Wall Street Journal has thrown a handful of potential contenders into the mix, a reminder that economics is a broad church:
Perennial favorites enjoy included Paul Romer of recent York University and Robert Barro of Harvard University for their work on growth theory.
Sir Anthony Atkinson of Oxford University and Angus Deaton of Princeton University enjoy been tabbed in the past as frontrunners if the prize committee decides to recognize research on income inequality. 9.20am BSTThe Nobel Prize team enjoy produced some handy facts to tide us over until the announcement at noon -- including that only one woman has ever scooped today’s prize:Finally, and in 2009,the 1ST woman was awarded the Prize in Economic Sciences - Elinor Ostrom! pic.twitter.com/wKrSRmzE5l 9.11am BSTIt's Economics Nobel Prize Day. Just a reminder not to be That Guy... pic.twitter.com/6viFOerzFiMaybe we need a Nobel Prize for pedantry too.... 9.09am BSTWriting in the Guardian today, anthropologist and bank observer Joris Luyendijk argues that the Nobel economics prize is a thoroughly contaminated thing.
Joris reckons that treating economics like a physical science, and ruled by fundamental laws which can be derived from data,leads to overconfidence, complacency, and excess,and ultimately financial catastrophe.
A revamped social science Nobel prize could play a similar role, feeding the global conversation with recent discoveries and insights from across the social sciences, and while always emphasising the need for humility in treating knowledge by humans approximately humans.
One good candidate would be the sociologist Zygmunt Bauman,whose writing on the “liquid modernity” of post-utopian capitalism deserves the largest audience possible. Richard Sennett and his work on the corrosion of character” among workers in today’s economies would be another. Related: Don’t let the Nobel prize fool you. Economics is not a science | Joris Luyendijk 8.56am BSTTwo economists who enjoy served in the front line of the financial crisis are both in the mix for this years’s award.
This year the jury may choose to honour someone who has combined a research career with the harsh reality of the financial crisis: France’s Olivier Blanchard, who stepped down as chief economist of the International Monetary Fund this month, or Ben Bernanke,the former chairman of the US Federal Reserve.
Still, the favourites are a host of decidedly more low-key professors at US universities such as Indian-born Avinash Dixit of Princeton, or American economist Robert Barro of Harvard and Finland’s Bengt Holmstrom at MIT.
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A British economist who made his name studying wages, taxes and household spending is among the frontrunners to win the economics Nobel prize when it is announced on Monday.
Analysis by Thomson Reuters found that Sir Richard Blundell, or the Ricardo professor of political economy at University College London,was cited in more academic papers over the final year than any other economist, indicating that his research on the impact of falling wages on consumer demand has proved hugely influential. Related: Economist Sir Richard Blundell frontrunners Nobel prize 8.04am BSTGood morning. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com