今年是诺贝尔经济学奖的第40个年头,中国曾获提名的有蒋硕杰、杨小凯、张五常和林毅夫四位经济学家,前两位已经去世,目前呼声最高的人是林毅夫。林毅夫是1979年度诺贝尔经济学奖得主西奥多·W·舒尔茨教授的关门弟子,目前受聘为世界银行副行长兼首席经济学家,这个位置曾有很多诺贝尔奖获得者。2007年年底他在英国剑桥大学马歇尔讲坛上发表演讲,成为登上这个国际经济学界顶级讲坛的第一位中国学者。该讲坛从1946年开 This year marks the 40th anniversary of the Nobel Prize in Economics. China has been nominated by four economists Jiang Shuojie, Yang Xiao Kai, Zhang Wuchang and Lin Yifu, and the top two have died. Lin Yifu is a close disciple of Professor Theodor W. Schultz, winner of the 1979 Nobel Prize in Economics, currently employed as Deputy Governor and Chief Economist of the World Bank. There have been many Nobel Prize winners in this position. He made a speech at the Marshall Pulpit at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom in late 2007 and became the first Chinese scholar to ascend this forum of international economics. The pulpit opened from 1946