Daily Archives: 2009/10/12

Paul Romer on Elinor Ostrom’s Nobel prize

Posted on 2009/10/12 by Dimitrios Diamantaras

My old teacher Paul Romer has a fantastic post on Ostrom’s prize award. A long quote follows, but I do strongly recommend the whole thing: Most economists think that they are building cranes that suspend important theoretical structures from a … Continue reading →

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Glaeser on the “Nobel” prize in economics

Posted on 2009/10/12 by Dimitrios Diamantaras

Ed Glaeser has a nice essay explaining the work of the awardees of this year’s prize in the New York Times.

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Levitt on the “Nobel” prize in economics 2009

Posted on 2009/10/12 by Dimitrios Diamantaras

Here is Steven Levitt admitting that he should have known about Ostrom. Nice to see an admission that over-narrowness is not very productive in science.

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Swedish National Bank’s Prize in memory of Alfred Nobel, 2009

Posted on 2009/10/12 by Dimitrios Diamantaras

Congratulations to Elinor Ostrom and Oliver Williamson for the honor they received. I wish I had time to discuss this properly right now, but class prep is calling. Meanwhile, here is a post by Alex Tabarrok on Wiliamson and one … Continue reading →

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