Armen Alchian, for work on property rights, evolution, information, and uncertainty.
Harold Demsetz, for property rights and the theory of the firm.
Sam Peltzman, for his paradigm-expanding work in the theory of risk and regulation.
Israel Kirzner, for rescuing the entrepreneur from the maw of formalistic mathematics.
Gordon Tullock, for pathbreaking work into “public choice” and “rent-seeking” behavior.
Pero poco cabe esperar de unos premios que el año pasado agraciaron a un economista que defendió la creación de una burbuja inmobiliaria.
Wirkman señala también otros olvidados del Nobel del s. XX:
Ludwig von Mises, for his pioneering work on the ordinal theory of marginal utility, for applying marginal utility to money, for developing the Austrian Theory of the Business Cycle, for his devastating and pathbreaking examination of the calculation problem in common proposed socialistic economic policy, for . . . well, the list goes on.
G.L.S. Shackle, for extending subjectivism in choice theory by exploring the complicated ramifications of imagination and expectations.
Ludwig Lachmann, for limning the structure of production in terms of the heterogeneity of capital.
