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Prediction for the 2017 Nobel Prize in Economics
August 11, 2017 Flotsam and Jetsam

My call is going to be William Nordhaus for his work broadly in Environmental Economics and more specifically on the Economics of Climate Change. I would have predicted a share with Wallace Oates had be not passed away in 2015 or William Baumol who sadly passed this year. I think it is time for Environmental Economics issues to be raised in stature, and I think the committee is going to award it in part because it messed up by not recognizing Baumol. If the prize is a share and it is kept to Environmental questions, I am not sure who I’d bet on. I guess some names would include Pindyck, Stavins, Fullerton, Greenstone …

 

Just wanted to put this up since I’m never right about anything. And if I am wrong, I think it is healthy to show people that too.

"2" Comments
  1. Why not jyotirmaya from India??

  2. if you think it’s going to be an environmental economist I think it would probably be someone like Dasgupta and/or Heal (Nordhaus might be more likely to get it specifically for public/social discount rates but then it’ll probably be with someone like stern).

    I still think it could be someone like Romer.

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