Don't understand why people are in the busines of predicting winner (s) of Nobel Prize (s). The website of Nobel Prize says nominations received for any category is disclosed with a lag of 55 years. Thus, many a time none of the bets may figure on final list. Chicago's favourite Nobel Prize Pool could not guess right for the third year in a row. However, two of the winners were favourites at Harvard's poll - Peter Diamond & Dale Mortensen.
This year again Jagdish Bhagwati and Avinash Dixit were favourites for Economics prize on betting circle of Chicago.
It is interesting to note that Bhagwati's mentor Solow and his student, Krugman, both are Nobel Prize winners.
Chicago Pool for 2009 also showed Barack Obama as possible contender for Economics Prize. After 55 years, it would be even more interesting to see if the President was really a nominee.
The list of nominations for peace prize is very interesting. A number of times Gandhi was nominated. I also saw one bengali babu's name for peace nomination in the same year when Mahatma was also nominated. Wonder who is this bhadralok....
ReplyDeletegood one..but in this fast world no one is going to ask after 55 yrs about past nominees, isn"t it?
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