Who was the first economist to win the Nobel prize? It’s not as obvious as you might think. A hint (it’s a very subtle hint) is in the category in which I listed this post.
Oct 6 2010
Last night, I asked: Who was the first economist to win the Nobel prize? It's not as obvious as you might think. A hint (it's a very subtle hint) is in the category in which I listed this post. Commenters blake r, kevin, and Liam got it: it was Frederic Passy who, in fact, was not only the first economist to win the No...
Oct 6 2010
David complained about an article in which the author blamed libertarians for the refusal of a fire department to put out a fire because the homeowner had not paid for fire protection. David's point is that it was a government fire department. I think, though, that from a government fundamentalist point of view, this...
Oct 5 2010
Who was the first economist to win the Nobel prize? It's not as obvious as you might think. A hint (it's a very subtle hint) is in the category in which I listed this post.
READER COMMENTS
lukas
Oct 5 2010 at 8:33pm
Gustav Stresemann got a Peace Nobel in 1926, but there may have been someone before him, I haven’t checked.
SB7
Oct 5 2010 at 8:40pm
Norman Angell?
blake r
Oct 5 2010 at 8:51pm
Frédéric Passy (jointly) won the first Nobel Peace Prize in 1901 and was a proponent of free trade.
Steve
Oct 5 2010 at 8:52pm
Einstein won a 1921 Nobel. He thought about being an economist, before deciding economics was too complex (or so I’ve heard, though in a Google search just now I’m having trouble verifying this).
Hawk30
Oct 5 2010 at 11:03pm
Tinbergen.
I don’t understand the hint.
Yancey Ward
Oct 5 2010 at 11:38pm
I would be more interested in who will be the first one to have to give one back.
kevin
Oct 5 2010 at 11:44pm
Gotta be Frederic Passy. He was an economist who established the Inter-Parliamentary Union, and advocated free trade. He won the first Nobel Prize for Peace in 1901.
Liam
Oct 6 2010 at 2:03am
This is a great question. As I recall the first economist who won did not win it for Economics but some other category. But his name escapes me at the moment. I think I have to try and research this one
Liam
Oct 6 2010 at 2:19am
Right! It was Passy! I get the reference now. He published Lessons of Political Economics in which he advocated Free Trade between nations!
Alright, David. Who was the second to win it?
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