Comment Comment by oldgradstudent He did not win the Nobel Prize in Economics because there is no such prize.It's The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.http://exiledonline.com/the-nobel-prize-in-economics-there-i...Just imagine the ridicule if instead of the Turing or Shannon awards we'd have the ACM Prize in Computer Science in Memory of Alfred Nobel, or the IEEE Prize in Electrical Engineering in Memory of Alfred Nobel.BTW, here's a great paper by George Akerlof and Paul Romer who both won the prize: http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~promer/Looting.pdf parent oldgradstudent 8 years ago
It's The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.
http://exiledonline.com/the-nobel-prize-in-economics-there-i...
Just imagine the ridicule if instead of the Turing or Shannon awards we'd have the ACM Prize in Computer Science in Memory of Alfred Nobel, or the IEEE Prize in Electrical Engineering in Memory of Alfred Nobel.
BTW, here's a great paper by George Akerlof and Paul Romer who both won the prize: http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~promer/Looting.pdf