Deserving nobelists.

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In October the economists Peter A. Diamond of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dale T. Mortensen of Northwestern University, and Christopher A.

Pissarides of the London School of Economics were awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize for their work on "search frictions" in the labor market, reason asked Care Hayek blogger Donald Boudreaux, who chaired the economics department at George Mason University from 2001 to 2009, to name three economists who deserve the Nobel Prize but probably won't get it.

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1 Armen Alchian, University of California at Los Angeles. N o scholar has matched Alchian's brilliance at identifying the full range of constraints and opportunities that guide human action and at explaining how these constraints and opportunities influence the evolution of social institutions, such as the firm and the not-for-profit university.

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