I am in a taxi racing from Uppsala to Stockholm Sweden to catch a plane back to America after spending a few days talking with people at the university about causal inference. Later today, someone in Stockholm Im guessing will make a call and tell them they just won the Nobel Prize in medicine. On Tuesday it’ll be physics who gets the call. Wednesday chemistry, Thursday literature and Friday peace. But Monday? That’s the day someone(s) in economics will get their lucky call.
Well not everyone is lucky. Sometimes deserving people never get their call. So I asked Brittany and Michael from Tiktok to help us prepare for the prize by hyping up their favorite economists who didn’t win, but who should’ve won in their opinion. Today we get a dark horse entry probably no one was expecting — Charles Cobb!
Who was Charles Cobb? You know him as half of the Cobb-…
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