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The opening line of the article: Paul Krugman, a columnist for the New York Times and winner of a prestigious banking prize (usually mistakenly called a “Nobel”
by darshan 17y ago
The opening line of the article: Paul Krugman, a columnist for the New York Times and winner of a prestigious banking prize (usually mistakenly called a “Nobel”)...
What the hell? He absolutely did win a Nobel Prize (technically, the "Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences").
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/2008/ http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/2008/
- wmf 17y agoPedantry, combined with a swipe at the field. "It is not one of the Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel during 1895, but is commonly identified with them." according to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Memorial_Prize_in_Economic_Sciences http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Memorial_Prize_in_Economi...)