Monday, October 13, 2008

Congrats!

NYTimes

STOCKHOLM, Oct 13 (Reuters) - American economist Paul Krugman won the 2008 Nobel prize for economics for bringing together analysis of trade patterns and where economic activity takes place, the prize committee said on Monday.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said the prestigious 10 million crown ($1.4 million) prize recognised Krugman's formulation of a new theory to answer questions driving world-wide urbanisation.

"He has thereby integrated the previously disparate research fields of international trade and economic geography," the committee said in its statement.

Yeah, what they said.

Congratulations, Mr. Krugman. For what it's worth, you also get my portion of the Alternate Brain Not-So-Nobel Prize for explaining that economics shit in terms I can almost understand.

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