Greed and Capitalism

What kind of society isn't structured on greed? The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm; capitalism is that kind of a system.
- Milton Friedman

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Recent Nobel Economics Winners

2010: Peter Diamond and Dale Mortensen, U.S., and Christopher Pissarides, a British and Cypriot citizen, for their analysis of markets with search frictions.
2009: Elinor Ostrom and Oliver E. Williamson, for their analysis of economic governance.
2008: Paul Krugman, U.S., for his analysis of trade patterns and location of economic activity.
2007: Leonid Hurwicz, Eric S. Maskin and Roger B. Myerson, U.S., for laying the foundations of mechanism design theory.
2006: Edmund S. Phelps, U.S., for furthering the understanding of the trade-offs between inflation and its effects on unemployment.
2005: Robert J. Aumann, of Israel and the U.S., and American Thomas C. Schelling, for their work in game-theory analysis.
2004: Finn E. Kydland, Norway, and Edward C. Prescott, U.S., for their contribution to dynamic macroeconomics.
2003: Robert F. Engle, United States, and Clive W.J. Granger, Britain, for their use of statistical methods for economic time series.
2002: Daniel Kahneman, United States and Israel, and Vernon L. Smith, U.S., for pioneering the use of psychological and experimental economics in decision-making.
2001: George A. Akerlof, A. Michael Spence and Joseph E. Stiglitz, U.S., for research into how the control of information affects markets.
2000: James J. Heckman and Daniel L. McFadden, U.S., for their work in developing theories to help analyze labor data and how people make work and travel decisions.
1999: Robert A. Mundell, Canada, for innovative analysis of exchange rates that helped lay the intellectual groundwork for Europe's common currency.
1998: Amartya Sen, India, for contributions to welfare economics, which help explain the economic mechanisms underlying famines and poverty.
1997: Robert C. Merton and Myron S. Scholes, U.S., for developing a formula for the valuation of stock options.


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