In a way, isn't dividing the prize 3 ways a slap in the face to Akerlof and Stiglitz? Stiglitz in particular, I suspect, would have preferred not to have won this year in the hope of getting an unshared prize. -- Prof. Bryan Caplan Department of Economics George Mason University http://www.bcaplan.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Familiar as the voice of the mind is to each, the highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato, and Milton is, that they set at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men but what *they* thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages." --Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self-Reliance"