Heterodox
Tufts Global Development and Environment (GDAE) Institute announced the Leontief winners for next year. From the press release: GDAE will award its 2016 Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought to Diane Elson and Amit Bhaduri. This year's award, titled "Development and Equity," recognizes the contributions that these researchers have made to economic understandings of development, power, gender, and human rights.“As the free market and waves of globalization have left...
Read More »Angus Deaton wins the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
For his work on "consumption, poverty and welfare" according to the press release. It wasn't Atkinson, for inequality, as I suggested it was possible, but given the other possibilities cited this is quite good. Deaton had received last year the Leontief prize, which usually goes to heterodox economists (the other Nobel to win the Leontief was Sen), together with Jamie Galbraith.I should say, I recently read his The Great Escape. An interesting book, full of relevant data. But it does...
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