Experts in resource economics and family economics stand out in the list of winners of the Nobel Prize in Economics, which will close the list of centenary prize winners this Monday.
The Americans Janet Currie and Paolo Mauro and the British Partha Dasgupta lead the forecasts of the American firm Clarivate Analyticswhich annually compiles a list of presumptive candidates based on the impact they have had in their field of study, measured by the number of times their work is cited by the scientific community.
In Currie’s case, his Pioneering economic analyzes on child developmentwhile at Mauro, assigned for decades to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the prize would be awarded to him for his studies on the effects of corruption on investments and economic growth.
The British Partha Dasgupta, a expert in environmental economics and human resourcesalso appears in the pools of the economist Håkan Eggert, of the University of Gothenburg (western Sweden), as well as the French Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman.
Americans David Autor, specialized in public policyand Kenneth Rugoff, specialist in macroeconomics, are among the candidates, as is the Russian Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of the cryptocurrency Ethereum.
The Turk Daron Acemoglu, the Americans Larry Katz, Mark Granovetter, Mathew Jackson and Susan Athey; the Swede Torsten Persson, the Italian Guido Tabellini, the Briton Timothy Besley and the Canadian Ariel Pakes are also mentioned in swimming poolswhich are nothing more than speculation.
The Nobel Economics Committee, like the rest of the institutions responsible for awarding these prizes in their different categories, does not confirm the nominees. up to 50 years later.
The Nobel Prize in Economics, whose real name is the Prize for Economic Sciences in memory of Alfred Nobel, is the only one of six prizes It was not created at the time by the Swedish tycoon but was established in 1968 through a donation to the Nobel Foundation from the National Bank of Sweden on the occasion of its 300th anniversary.
The American Claudia Goldin was rewarded last year for her research on participation of women in the labor market and the gender pay gap.
With her, they are three women winners of the Nobel Prize in economicsthe only prize besides the physics prize that has never had a Spanish-American winner.
All Nobel Prize winners this year are endowed with 11 million Swedish crowns (976,000 euros, 1.1 million dollars).
