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Isn't the economics committee selected by the Nobel foundation?

• monocasa 7y ago
  Practically they're selected by existing economics committee members.
  • iudqnolq 7y ago
    That would make me incorrect, if true. Source?
    • nullstyle 7y ago
      https://www.nobelprize.org/about/the-economic-sciences-prize-committee/ https://www.nobelprize.org/about/the-economic-sciences-prize... https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/about/the-nobel-committee-for-physics/ https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/about/the-nobel-committee-... Looks like different people to me.
    • monocasa 7y ago
      https://web.archive.org/web/20130901225828/https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economic-sciences/prize_awarder/committee.html https://web.archive.org/web/20130901225828/https://www.nobel... > The Committee members are elected for a period of three years from among the members of the Academy. In assessing the qualifications of the candidates, the Committee is assisted by specially appointed expert advisers ie. the committee makes election decisions for themselves, while delegating a bit to advisers that they appoint. In most of the other fields, this is what you want. A physics group shouldn't have to agree with the literature members wrt who is on the physics committee. This breaks down for economics though because the whole prize was originally envisioned as a propaganda campaign for a specific branch of economics, so the process means it stays that way.
      • iudqnolq 7y ago
        Thanks! Will have to read those sources.