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- Title
Should the Nobel Prize In Economic Sciences Be Put on Hold?
- Authors
GALBRAITH, JAMES K.; BHAGWATI, JAGDISH; FRANKEL, JEFFREY A.; CUTTER, W. BOWMAN; GRANVILLE, BRIGITTE; CONNOLLY, BERNARD; CECCHETTI, STEPHEN G.; SCHOENHOLTZ, KERMIT L.; BAILY, MARTIN NEIL; MAYER, THOMAS; ÅSLUND, ANDERS; HUFBAUER, GARY CLYDE; ISSING, OTMAR; O'NEILL, JIM
- Abstract
The article explores Posen argues that economists need more "humility." Should that include putting the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel on hold until the profession establishes a more credible track record? As Time magazine once noted, economics is the only field in which people can share a Nobel Prize for arriving at the complete opposite conclusion something that arguably actually happened.
- Subjects
SVERIGES riksbank; NOBEL Prizes; COLUMBIA University; BUSINESS forecasting; ECONOMIC forecasting; NOBEL Prize in Economics; NOBEL Peace Prize
- Publication
International Economy, 2022, Vol 36, Issue 1, p14
- ISSN
0898-4336
- Publication type
Article