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Mechanism Design and the Economics Nobel:

The Austrian Economists blog has several informative posts discussing the winners of the Nobel Prize in Economics. According to Peter Boettke, writing in today's Wall Street Journal, much of the early work on mechanism design was spurred by Mises and Hayek's challenge to socialist economic planning. (Boettke's column presumably is subscriber only as it is not on Opinion Journal).

	[Sasha Volokh, October 15, 2007 at 10:13am] Trackbacks The Nobel Prize in Economics has gone to, among others, my former professor, Eric Maskin. Rather than try to summarize his accomplishments myself, I'll just refer you for now to Marginal Revolution (actually, just go to the main page, as there are a bunch of posts, and there may be more later) and the sources linked there. Related Posts (on one page): Mechanism Design and the Economics Nobel: The Nobel Prize in Economics Comments [Todd Zywicki, October 16, 2007 at 12:29pm] Trackbacks Mechanism Design and the Economics Nobel: The Austrian Economists blog has several informative posts discussing the winners of the Nobel Prize in Economics. According to Peter Boettke, writing in today's Wall Street Journal, much of the early work on mechanism design was spurred by Mises and Hayek's challenge to socialist economic planning. (Boettke's column presumably is subscriber only as it is not on Opinion Journal). Related Posts (on one page): Mechanism Design and the Economics Nobel: The Nobel Prize in Economics Comments