Economists Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok, creators of Marginal Revolution, recently made their picks for who might win the upcoming 2024 Nobel Prize for economics. The discussion came during an Oct. 8 episode of the duo’s Marginal Revolution podcast. In what he referred to as an “unusual pick,” Cowen said, given the opportunity, he’d pick Ethereum co-founder and computer scientist Vitalik Buterin. While he and co-host Tabarrok discussed their views on the merits of theoretical economics, the duo agreed that Buterin deserved the award because “he actually did something in monetary economics.” P…