First-Year Grad Student Wins Nobel Prize in Economics!

October 9th, 2009

Greg Mankiw’s announces that a first-year graduate student has won the Nobel Prize in economics:

Professor Paul Krugman of Princeton, who won the prize in 2008, said Pfuffnick’s award shows great things are expected from him in the coming years.

He must be really deserving, because he was nominated for the award just two weeks into his first year.