Mark Kleiman suggests two names to my list of interestin geconomists deserving of a Nobel. Thomas Schelling is a very good choice: The Strategy of Conflict is a staple of Political Science, and Micromotives and Macrobehavior is a superb book. It’s instructive that one of the few negative reviews of hte book on Amazon says both “Is this really economics?” and “this book’s content will be old-hat to anyone who has been trained to think like an economist.”

Mark’s other suggestion is Tibor Scitovsky, who did revolutionary work in welfare economics, but who I’m not so familiar with. Unfortunately, Scitovsky died in June, aged 91, and Nobels aren’t awarded posthumously.