I’ve noticed that a lot of economists, in the US at least, don’t seem to care all that much about the Nobel prize in economics. I’ve mentioned Elinor Ostrom, the first woman to win the Nobel in economics for her work on possible solutions to the tragedy of the commons, and most have never heard of her, or her findings. There’s also Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel prize winning economist that most American economists don’t seem to like or respect. I guess the prize just doesn’t impress very many American economists anymore.