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Do we know what we’re doing? Maybe we should stop calling the “Nobel Prize in Economics” a Nobel Prize. It’s an award financed by “Finance”, not the Nobel fou
by m-s-y 3y ago
Do we know what we’re doing? Maybe we should stop calling the “Nobel Prize in Economics” a Nobel Prize.
It’s an award financed by “Finance”, not the Nobel foundation.
The existence of the prize is was a public relations coup for banking, that’s it.
- tomoyoirl 3y agoIt’s the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. There’s a reason people will always call it something shorter; personally I don’t trust myself to spell Riksbank properly (I keep wanting to put a j in there like it’s Dutch or something), and the media have zero incentive to report on it as something like a “Riksbank Prize” because no one will pay attention.
- pydry 3y agoMaybe we should start calling it the fauxbel prize.
- fuzzfactor 3y agoFo-Sho!
- pgeorgi 3y agoHow about the "Bankers awarding Bankers award, inspired by Nobel"?
- guappa 3y agoMaybe we could call it the Riksbank Prize? edit: For the english speakers, maybe a literal translation helps? "The rich's bank prize"
- thedailymail 3y agoHow about the BS (Bank of Sweden) Prize?
- Khaine 3y agoEconomics is called the dismal science for a reason.
- justin66 3y agoThat the Nobel Prize in Economics is not a real Nobel Prize is a novel and interesting observation that has never been made in a forum thread. Kudos!
- feedforward 3y agoBeing as an article was just posted talking about an Economics Nobel Prize in its title, the comment seems certainly needed, and if it is not novel, then its repetition would seem necessary.
- justin66 3y ago> needed > necessary These words do not mean what you think they mean.