Double post today because I missed yesterday.
I’m a little late on this, but Peter Diamond was recently the co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economics. (For another interesting link, this prize is not one of the original Nobel Prizes.) I think my knowledge of economics (admittedly not very high to begin with) may have doubled just by reading this overview of his work:
Marginal Revolution: Peter A. Diamond.
Similar summaries of the other co-recipients are available on the same site:
(via marginalrevolution)