Dobitnici ovogodišnje nagrade Ig Nobel nagrade za ekonomiju: “Economics: The directors, executives, and auditors of four Icelandic banks: Kaupthing Bank, Landsbanki, Glitnir Bank, and Central Bank of Iceland – for demonstrating that tiny banks can be rapidly transformed into huge banks, and vice versa; and for demonstrating that similar things can be done to an entire national economy.”

U svom 24/7 nastupu (24 sekunde nerazumljivog žargona iz područja, te u 7 riječi opisano čime se bavi) Krugman je rekao:

24: “Given decentralized constrained optimization by maximizing agents with well-defined convex objective functions and/or convex production functions, engaging in exchange and production with free disposal, leads, in the absence of externalities, market power, and other distortions, there exists an equilibrium characterized by Pareto optimality.”

7: “Greedy people, competing, make the world go round.”

(naši ekonomisti većinom ovu šalu vjerojatno ne mogu ni razumjeti jer je naša naša javna ekonomija na dosta niskoj razini računovodstva i gatanja iz domena javnih financija)