Nobel Prize in Economics Laureates' achievements estimated from
their fame  Author: Mikhail Simkin  Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman.
Image by Prolineserver/Wikimedia.  Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman.
Image by Prolineserver/Wikimedia.  In a recent article1, Anouk
Claes and Marc de Ceuster reported the achievements of Nobel
Prize Laureates in economics, which they estimated from their
fame. They used a method which was originally published in
Significance2. The method stems from the observation that the
fame of fighter-pilot aces (measured as the number of web pages
mentioning them) grows exponentially with their achievement
(measured as the number of their victories). One may hypothesize
that a similar relationship exists between fame and achievement
in other professions including those where an unquestionable and
universally accepted measure of achievement does not exist. One
can then compute the ratio of achievements of two people as the
ratio of the logarithms of their fame.  Table 1 below shows the
results obtai