The economics profession was once again shut out of the MacArthur 'genius' grant awards this year.

Here are the prior economists who have been awarded the fellowship....

1981: Michael Woodford, economist
1983: Alice M. Rivlin, economist and policy analyst
1984: Michael Piore, economist
1986: Lester R. Brown, agricultural economist
1994: Heidi Hartmann, economist
1996: Robert Greenstein, public policy analyst
1997: Michael Kremer, economist
1998: Nancy Folbre, economist
1998: Avner Greif, economist
2000: Matthew Rabin, economist
2002: Sendhil Mullainathan, economist
2005: Kevin M. Murphy, economist

For full list see: MacArthur Fellows Program - Wikipedia.

Or last year... | Posted October 2, 2007 08:59 PM by John Irons