Among a few other possible nominees:
Joshua D. Angrist
Ford Professor of Economics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA, USA-and-
David E. Card
Class of 1950 Professor of Economics
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA, USA-and-
Alan B. Krueger
Bendheim Professor of Economics
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ, USA
For their advancement of empirical microeconomics
Sir David F. Hendry
Professor of Economics
University of Oxford
Oxford, England, UK-and-
M. Hashem Pesaran
John Elliot Distinguished Chair in Economics & Professor of Economics, and Emeritus Professor of Economics & Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA and University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England, UK-and-
Peter C.B. Phillips
Sterling Professor of Economics and Professor of Statistics
Yale University
New Haven, CT, USA
For their contributions to economic time-series, including modeling, testing and forecasting
Sam Peltzman
Ralph and Dorothy Keller Distinguished Service Professor of Economics Emeritus
University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Chicago, IL, USA-and-
Richard A. Posner
Judge, United States Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, and Senior Lecturer
University of Chicago Law School
Chicago, IL, USA
For extending economic theories of regulation
Now Scalia can’t one-up him on this one! Does anyone know if the code of judicial conduct would permit him to receive the roughly $1 million prize? (We already dealt with the title of nobility issue with President Obama’s prize).