Wednesday, October 08, 2014

US rabbi-professor favorite for Nobel in economics :Rabbi Dr. Israel Kirzner seen as frontrunner for Monday’s award


Times of Israel reports:
New York University professor of economics, and Orthodox rabbi, Dr. Israel Kirzner is one of the favorites to win this year’s Nobel Prize in Economics.

The Thomson Reuters Citation Laureates, a scientifically backed rating agency, named Kirzner as a front-runner on its annual list of candidates likely to win the Nobel Prize in their respective fields.

The economics prize will be announced on Monday, October 13.

Imagine that. Let's hear it for the Austrian School of Economics!