Waiting for the 2010 Nobel Prize Winners 246.0
Th 2010 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel was updated on October 11, 2010:
Peter Diamond (MIT), Dale Mortensen (Northwestern University), Christopher Pissarides (LSE) shared the prize for research that improved the understanding of search frictions in markets. Their work allowed a more realistic case than classic perfect competition in orthodox economics.
Nobel Prize for Peace updated on October 8, 2010:
Liu Xiaobo has won the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of “his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China.”
Literature updated on October 7, 2010:
Mario Vargas Llosa of Peru has won the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Chemistry updated on October 6, 2010:
Richard F. Heck of the University of Delaware; Ei-ichi Negishi of Purdue University and Akira Suzuki of Hokkaido University in Sapporo, Japan shared the 2010 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing a technique to synthesize complex molecules including medicines by linking carbon molecules with palladium as catalyst.
Physics updated on October 5, 2010
Andre K. Geim and Konstantin S. Novoselov, ofthe University of Manchester in England, shared the 2010 Nobel Prize for Physics award for their development of a form of carbon that is only one atom thick called graphene. The Academy said that “carbon in such a flat form has exceptional properties that originate from the remarkable world of quantum physics.
Biology updated on October 4, 2010:
Robert G. Edwards, an English biologist who with a physician colleague, Patrick Steptoe, developed the in-vitro fertilization procedure for treating human infertility has been awarded the 2010 Nobel prize in physiology or medicine.
I am waiting with great anticipation for the Nobel Prize announcements come October 2010.
The Prizes are given to living awardees who made significant achievements in their respective fields.
I particularly await the announcement for the 2010 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. The past awardees contributed monumental insights through their research.
Following the thread of insights from the succession of winners, we can track the insights reflecting the growing understanding about the field while at the same time seeing how the real economy continues to confound and challenge for new findings.
Winner announcements. The Nobel Prize awarding institutions have set the following dates for their announcements of 2010 prize decisions:
- Physiology or Medicine – Monday 4 October
- Physics – Tuesday 5 October
- Chemistry – Wednesday 6 October
- Peace – Friday 8 October
- The date for the announcement of the Nobel Prize in Literature will be set later.
- 2010 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel – Monday 11 October
Economics awardees. Visiting the Nobel Prize website (you can click the image above for a link to the site), I noted that I have books from some awardees and have featured them in SYNTHESiST as below:
2009 – Elinor Ostrom: Governing the Commons, (signed copy) 2008 – Paul Krugman: The Myth of Asia’s Miracle, Competitiveness: A Dangerous Obsession, The Great Unravalling, The Return of Depresion Economics,New York Times columns 2001 – Joseph E. Stiglitz: Globalization and its Discontents, Making Globalization Work, The Roaring Nineties, and a lecture at the Asian Institute of Management 1998 – Amartya Sen: Development as Freedom, The Idea of Justice, Rationality and Freedom, Foreword to Adam Smith’s TheTheory of Moral Sentiments, The Argumentative Indian 1993 – Douglass C. North: Structure and Change in Economic History 1991 – Ronald H. Coase: The Firm The Market and the Law 1987 – Robert M. Solow on Total Factor Productivity 1985 – Franco Modigliani: Adventures of an Economist 1979 – Sir Arthur Lewis 1974 – Friedrich von Hayek: The Road to Serfdom, Hayek on Hayek 1972 – Kenneth Arrow: The Economic Implications of Learning by Doing
The 2010 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel was first given in 1969.
Fearless forecast. I forecast that for 2010, the Nobel Prize for Economics will be Paul Romer. This is the second year I am making the forecast as I did in this 4.26.09 post.
