manchild Posted June 8, 2010 Share Posted June 8, 2010 On another thread I commented that I was surprised that it appears that Paul Krugman doesn't have an Erdos number (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erdős_number). Can anyone find a link from Krugman to Erdos (I couldn't in about 20 minutes of looking)? To help, here is a list of Nobel Laureate ecnomists who do have an Erdos number: Paul A. Samuelson 1970 Economics 5 Kenneth J. Arrow 1972 Economics 3 Tjalling C. Koopmans 1975 Economics 4 Herbert A. Simon 1978 Economics 3 Gerard Debreu 1983 Economics 3 Franco Modigliani 1985 Economics 4 Robert M. Solow 1987 Economics 4 Harry M. Markowitz 1990 Economics 2 Merton H. Miller 1990 Economics 4 John C. Harsanyi 1994 Economics 8 John F. Nash 1994 Economics 4 Reinhard Selten 1994 Economics 7 James Mirrlees 1996 Economics 3 Robert C. Merton 1997 Economics 6 Amartya Sen 1998 Economics 4 James J. Heckman 2000 Economics 4 Joseph Stiglitz 2001 Economics 4 Daniel Kahneman 2002 Economics 3 Robert J. Aumann 2005 Economics 3 Edmund S. Phelps 2006 Economics 4 Surprisingly, Danica McKellar and Natalie Portman also have Erdos numbers (and Bacon numbers therefore also giving them a Erdos-Bacon number, but that is another story...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heraclitus_junior Posted June 8, 2010 Share Posted June 8, 2010 Natalie Portman has been published in a journal? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chisquared Posted June 8, 2010 Share Posted June 8, 2010 Yep. In psychology, I believe. The article I read about it may have been exaggerating, but she's been published even in well-regarded peer-reviewed journals. I think her Erdos-Bacon number is less than 10. (I think I remember reading that it was 6, or something) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ibid Posted June 8, 2010 Share Posted June 8, 2010 I'm surprised to see Stiglitz and Heckman having higher numbers than Kahnemann. Krugman was published in a Handbook edited by Richard Schmalensee who published with Arrow and Granger. If you can count being published by an editor as a node (even if it would probably make Krugman vomit), then the number is quite low. Natalie Portman has been published in a journal? She did her undergrad in Harvard; co-authored in NeuroImage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eigenman Posted June 8, 2010 Share Posted June 8, 2010 (even if it would probably make Krugman vomit) Impossible, it is a matter of public record that Krugman is a filter feeder. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
singmeat Posted June 8, 2010 Share Posted June 8, 2010 He does have a baleen. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fantiki Posted June 8, 2010 Share Posted June 8, 2010 Yep. In psychology, I believe. The article I read about it may have been exaggerating, but she's been published even in well-regarded peer-reviewed journals. I think her Erdos-Bacon number is less than 10. (I think I remember reading that it was 6, or something) It is not that hard to achieve the Erdos number of 3 or 4 if you work in any field closely related to math/stats. For instance, I have Erdos number of 4 as I coauthored a good computer science publication. Generally, my impression is that in computer science many professors at Top 50 schools or so have Erdos numbers of 3-4, so it is not that difficult to get a pretty high value with only a single publication. I also mentioned my Erdos number in my CV for applications, but I am not sure if it helped at all:) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Golden Rule Posted June 8, 2010 Share Posted June 8, 2010 Well the first link that jumps out at me is Samuelson = 5, Dornbursch = 6, Krugman= 7. Dornbusch may have a lower number than 6 though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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