We’d never heard of the Dynamite Awards before, but they appear to be — in ethos at least — a distant cousin of the notorious Darwins.
But unlike the Darwin Awards, these gongs aren’t handed out to those who’ve managed to kill themselves in inordinately silly ways. Instead, as the Real World Economics Review blog explained, the winners are:
[those who] have been judged to be the three economists most responsible for the Global Financial Crisis. More figuratively, they are the three economists most responsible for blowing up the global economy.
More than 7,500 people voted—most of whom were economists themselves from the 11,000 subscribers to the real-world economics review. With a maximum of three votes per voter, a total of 18,531 votes were cast. The poll was conducted by PollDaddy. Cookies were used to prevent repeat voting.
The first-place awardee may comes as no surprise — Alan Greenspan, with the lion’s share of the votes – but the second and third-place winners were interesting selections.
For more, see the post at Real World Economics.
Also nominated: Fischer Black and Myron Scholes, Eugene Fama and Assar Lindbeck.
(H/T Richard Murphy)
Related links:
Black swan addendum – FT Alphaville
Testimony the FCIC should really be hearing… – FT Alphaville
Alan Greenspan fights back- Fortune
How Larry Summers lost Harvard $1.8 billion – Felix Salmon at Reuters