USC Prof. Favored to Win Nobel in Econ.

Colleges & Universities University of Southern California
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<p>The winner will be announced tomorrow, Monday, October 15th. </p>

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<p>We can only wish. Unfortunately, Chicago, Princeton, MIT, Berkeley, Stanford, and Harvard has a virtual monopoly on the economics prize.</p>

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<p>UCLA won the Nobel Prize in Economics this year (jointly shared with Harvard). Sorry, you guys, maybe next year. </p>

<p>At least you guys have football!</p>

<p>Source: <a href=“http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/2012/shapley.html[/url]”>http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/2012/shapley.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>No way would the Nobel for the “Dismal Science” go to a professor who’s specialty is the Economics of Happiness. Not dismal enough.</p>

<p>We can claim Arthur Laffer, though. Whether we want to is another issue.</p>

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<p>We didn’t get the Nobel but we did pick up yet another UCLA shadower this year, lol…</p>