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8.12.10

Elegio de la lectura y la ficción

"Creíamos que, con el desplome de los imperios totalitarios, la convivencia, la paz, el pluralismo, los derechos humanos, se impondrían y el mundo dejaría atrás los holocaustos, genocidios, invasiones y guerras de exterminio. Nada de eso ha ocurrido. Nuevas formas de barbarie proliferan atizadas por el fanatismo y, con la multiplicación de armas de destrucción masiva, no se puede excluir que cualquier grupúsculo de enloquecidos redentores provoque un día un cataclismo nuclear. Hay que salirles al paso, enfrentarlos y derrotarlos. No son muchos, aunque el estruendo de sus crímenes retumbe por todo el planeta y nos abrumen de horror las pesadillas que provocan. No debemos dejarnos intimidar por quienes quisieran arrebatarnos la libertad que hemos ido conquistando en la larga hazaña de la civilización. Defendamos la democracia liberal, que, con todas sus limitaciones, sigue significando el pluralismo político, la convivencia, la tolerancia, los derechos humanos, el respeto a la crítica, la legalidad, las elecciones libres, la alternancia en el poder, todo aquello que nos ha ido sacando de la vida feral y acercándonos –aunque nunca llegaremos a alcanzarla– a la hermosa y perfecta vida que finge la literatura, aquella que sólo inventándola, escribiéndola y leyéndola podemos merecer. Enfrentándonos a los fanáticos homicidas defendemos nuestro derecho a soñar y a hacer nuestros sueños realidad."

Elegio de la lectura y la ficción

11.10.10

Prize in Economics 2010

The Economics Prize Committee

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2010 was awarded jointly to Peter A. Diamond, Dale T. Mortensen and Christopher A. Pissarides "for their analysis of markets with search frictions".

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14.10.09

Multidisciplinary Research, Nobel Prize 2009

The Nobel committee’s decision, like earlier awards to Amartya Sen[,] Daniel Kahneman [and Coase] is a welcome shot in the arm for research that crosses disciplinary boundaries in the social sciences.

Source: ECONOMIST.com

Skyhooks

Accordingly with Barro:

Elinor’s fieldwork [pointed us] To understand BOTH why we don’t need police officers in some cases AND why police officers don’t follow the rules in other cases, we have to expand models of human preferences to include a contingent taste for punishing others.

12.10.09

Some reactions to Nobel Prize in Economics

Accordingly with Steven D. Levitt

What’s interesting is that in the ensuing 15 years, it seems to me that economists have talked less and less about Williamson’s research, at least in the circles in which I run. I suspect most assistant professors of economics have barely heard of him. Yet I suspect the older generation of economists will applaud this choice.

The reaction of the economics community to Elinor Ostrom’s prize will likely be quite different. The reason? If you had done a poll of academic economists yesterday and asked who Elinor Ostrom was, or what she worked on, I doubt that more than one in five economists could have given you an answer. I personally would have failed the test. I had to look her up on Wikipedia, and even after
reading the entry, I have no recollection of ever seeing or hearing her name mentioned by an economist. She is a political scientist, both by training and her career — one of the most decorated political scientists around.

Paul Krugman

Oliver Williamson’s work underlies a tremendous amount of modern economic thinking; I know it because of the attempts to model multinational corporations, almost all of which rely to some degree on his ideas. I wasn’t familiar with Ostrom’s work, but even a quick scan shows why she shared the prize: if the goal is to understand the creation of economic institutions, it’s crucial to be aware that there is more variety in institutions, a wider range of strategies that work, than simply the binary divide between individuals and firms.

Nobel Prize in Economics




"for her [Elinor Ostrom] analysis of economic governance, especially the commons"

"for his [Oliver Williamson] analysis conomic governance, especially the boundaries of the firm"

6.10.09

Announcement of the Prize in Economic Sciences

On Monday, October 12, 1:00 p.m. CET, 11:00 a.m. GMT at the earliest; the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences will announce the names of the 2009 Laureates in Economics Sciences.

For a live transmission see Nobelprize.org

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24.9.09

2009 NOBEL PRIZE PREDICTIONS

2009 NOBEL PRIZE PREDICTIONS

What accounts for the predictive power of citations? It is not really that mysterious. Citations in the literature represent repayments of intellectual debts that one researcher pays to another. The social norms and formal publication procedures in science demand that relevant work is acknowledged — and it is considered misconduct not to recognize previous work which a researcher has used in his or her own work. Moreover, these citation links represent a coherent pattern of intellectual connections. In other words, there is much meaning in all those millions of footnotes appended to research reports. The counting of citations, over specific periods and in different fields, can reveal the most highly cited people and papers, and these ranked lists have been shown to contain a large number of scientists who have already won the Nobel Prize (and other prestigious awards) and the names of those who later go on to receive the Nobel Prize.

THE POWER OF CITATIONS