Among the others who may win the Economics Nobel Prize in 2008 are (in clock-wise order):
Peter Arthur Diamond (born April 29, 1940) is an American economist known for his analysis of U.S. Social Security policy and his work as an advisor to the Advisory Council on Social Security.
Dale Thomas Mortensen (born 2 February 1939) is an American economist. He received his B.A. in economics from Willamette University and his Ph.D. in Economics from Carnegie Mellon University. He has been on the faculty of Northwestern University since 1965.
His research focuses on labor economics, macroeconomics and economic theory. Mortensen is especially known for his pioneering work on the search and matching theory of frictional unemployment
Christopher Antoniou Pissarides is a British and Greek Cypriot economist. He currently holds the Norman Sosnow Chair in Economics at the London School of Economics. His research interests focus on several topics of macroeconomics, notably labor, growth, and economic policy.
Elhanan Helpman (born March 30, 1946 in Jalal-Abad in the Fergana Valley, former Soviet Union) is an Israeli-American economist who works in the field of international trade, political economy and economic growth.
Robert Joseph Barro (born September 28, 1944) is an American classical liberal macroeconomist and the Paul M Warburg Professor of Economics at Harvard University.
Paul Robin Krugman (born February 28, 1953) is an American economist, columnist, author, and intellectual of Jewish origin. He is professor of economics and international affairs at Princeton University, and is also a columnist for The New York Times, writing a blog and a twice-weekly op-ed column for the newspaper since 2000.
Image: Peter Diamond, Dale Mortensen, Christopher Pissarides, Elhanan Helpman, Robert Barro, Paul Krugman
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