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The prize is the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. It was not one of the prizes established by Nobel in his will. This pr
by CharleFKane 4y ago
The prize is the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.
It was not one of the prizes established by Nobel in his will. This prize was created in 1968.
It is not a Nobel Prize. It is wrong and misleading to call it a "Nobel Prize".
- lioeters 4y ago> Nobel Prizes are awarded in the fields of Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, and Peace. > In 1968, Sveriges Riksbank (Sweden's central bank) funded the establishment of the Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, to also be administered by the Nobel Foundation. > Peter Nobel describes the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel as a "false Nobel prize" that dishonours his relative Alfred Nobel, after whom the prize is named, and considers economics to be a pseudoscience. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize#Status_of_the_Economic_Sciences_Prize https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize#Status_of_the_Econ...