Three Americans will share the Nobel prize for economics.
Americans Leonid Hurwicz, Eric Maskin and Roger Myerson won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences on Monday for work that “laid the foundations of mechanism design theory.” The three researchers were honored for their work that helps find the optimal mechanism to reach certain goals such as social welfare or private profit.
Hm. Those names, they sound familiar… whatever could the ethnicity of those guys be?
Okay, the real question is: Is it two out of three, or three out of three? I’m guessing Jewish on Maskin and Myerson.
Us crafty Jews. Controlling the world’s money pays off.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonid_Hurwicz
Leonid “Leo” Hurwicz (born August 21, 1917, Moscow) is Regents’ Professor of Economics Emeritus at the University of Minnesota and co-winner, along with Eric Maskin and Roger Myerson, of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Economics.
Hurwicz was born in 1917 to a Jewish family from Poland…
Leonid Hurwicz aussi, bien entendu.
Probably 3 out of 3. Hurwicz looks like a variant of Horwitz/Horowitz.
Meryl,
You may not be aware but Jews are represented 22 times as frequently among Nobvel Prize winners as their population.This reminds me of a time as an UG when a young women -who was Jewish stated she thought Einstein was the brightest person of the century.I pointed out-diffedently as is my way-that most people in physics and math,and certainlynthose at the Institute for Advanced Studies consider John von Neumann to be that person.She stated I couldn’t be serious and I must be anti Semitic to make that comment.The prof ,whose name was Weinberg just smiled and wiwnked .Do you know why?
Jews are about 0.23% of world poulation and about 23% of the noble winners. So they are represented 100 times as their population.