You should actually read up on some of the work of some of these prize winning economists - lots of them actually have very insightful and useful contributions

You should actually read up on some of the work of some of these prize winning economists - lots of them actually have very insightful and useful contributions to society. I cannot recommend enough the book "Who Gets What and Why" by Alvin Roth, a former Nobel Prize winner. Among other things, he created the world's first successful Kidney exchange program for donors. The book eloquently lays out how to design functional markets of exchange when money is not a resource available. His work is easy to understand, eloquent, and literally saves lives. This is exactly the kind of thing worth celebrating.