Issue 13, Spring 1997

William A. McEachern, Editor

Nobel Odds

Just days before the 1996 Nobel Laureate in Economic Science was announced last fall, I visited the Internet site that was holding a mock poll for the prize. At the time, 123 votes had been spread over 40 different economists. Amartya Sen was the top vote getter ar 20, Joe Stiglitz was a close second with 19 votes, and Clive Granger was third with 15 votes. Nobody else had vote totals in double digits; 22 received a single vote, including Barbara Bergmann, tho only woman vote-getter. As it turned out, neither James Mirrlees nor William Vickery, the acual winners of the 1996 Nobel Prize, received a single vote in the mock election.

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