Ivan Werning @IvanWerning · 24 Aug 2026
A partial list of economists without economics PhD or training: Maskin Shapley Debreu Kahnemann Ostrom Nash Simon Kantorovich (all Nobels) Keynes Irving Fisher. Scarf never took a single Econ class. Not to mention all economic founders in XIX So credentials not needed but at the
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