Indians Economists tipped for 2006 Nobel Prize

Indians Economists tipped for 2006 Nobel Prize
Friday, October 11, 2006

Two economists of Indian origin are on the short list of prospective
Nobel Prize winners in economics to be announced on Monday. One
of the economist includes a close personal friend of Prime Minister
of India, Dr. Manmohan Singh.

Globalization guru Jagdish Bhagwati of Cambridge University has
been a perpetual favorite for the past decade, and this Bhagwati
is again on a shortlist proposed by Thomson Scientific, which develops
a list of likely winners each year in medicine, chemistry, physics
and economics based on academic contributions over a lifetime, citation
counts over a 30 year span, and the number of high impact papers.

The chances of Jagdish Bhagwati winning the Nobel prize on an online
poll by Thomson Scientific over the weekend showed 33 per of respondents
believing that he, along with fellow economists Avinash Dixit and
Paul Krugman, will jointly win the Economics Nobel this year "for
their contributions to international trade theory.".

Source: http://www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/article-world.asp?parentid=55262