Nobel Season

Well, it's that time again. Starting Monday of next week and through the 13th of October, Stockholm will announce the winners of the various Nobel prizes. Medicine is the 6th (Mon), Physics the 7th (Tues), Chemistry the 8th (Wed), Literature TBA, Peace the 10th (Friday), and the Economic Prize is the 13th, the following Monday. InTrade is not yet running any contracts on the likely winners, but you can expect the next two weeks to be full of speculation on economics blogs regarding this year's winners. I'm going to go with my old favorite and say it'll be Robert Barro, author of numerous influential pieces in macroeconomics such as his paper on Ricardian equivalence among about a half dozen others. I'm also going to go with the dark horse and say Paul Krugman and Avinash Dixit for their work on international trade. But, more than likely, it'll be someone I've never heard of, and then after I learn, someone I'm embarrassed that I'd never heard of, like nearly every other winner of recent years (almost).