Economics Nobel Prize

[phk]

Didn't see a thread on it and I'm disappointed that Hal White did not win this year (maybe next year).

Well anyway we have two winners, both Americans, Christopher Sims of Princeton University and Thomas Sargent of NYU.

Christopher Sims
Homepage: http://www.princeton.edu/~sims/
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_A._Sims
Google Scholar: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=christopher+sims&hl=en&btnG=Search&as_sdt=1%2C47&as_sdtp=on

Intro stuff on VAR's: https://files.nyu.edu/ts43/public/research/abcd_final_7.pdf
More Stuff on Vector Autoregressions: http://economics.sas.upenn.edu/~jesusfv/svars_format.pdf

Thomas Sargent
Hompage:https://files.nyu.edu/ts43/public/
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_J._Sargent
Google Scholar: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=thomas+sargent&hl=en&btnG=Search&as_sdt=1%2C47&as_sdtp=on

Prize is obviously related to Macroeconometrics.

[phk]

...is not a nobel prize.

and calling it one should be an infractable offense.

As an econ prof, I am going to make it an infractable offense to doubt its Nobelity ))

It's official name is the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.

That said, economics is not the only addition that would be worthy to the pantheon of Nobel and quasi-Nobel prizes.

Architecture, Agriculture, Cinema, and Mathematics would all be worthy additions.

     Mathematics almost made the cut too. Sort of silly not to include it, ultimately.

Wouldn't it be redundant to have a Mathematics prize with the Fields Medal?