Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Social Science for the win, Alex

Carnegie Mellon notches its 8th Nobel in economics, as reported in today's Post Gazette:

"Dr. Mortensen's work analyzes the role of individual decision-making in unemployment and job search. He said yesterday in a conference call from Denmark that his models show that more generous unemployment benefits can result in higher unemployment and longer search times."

I think everyone can share in this prize. Who knew you didn't have to develop graphene or in-vitro fertilization to win?

1 comment:

Peter H of Lebo said...

or only have to fight two wars to win the Peace prize.