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Economics is a bogus subject? What other subjects don't you approve of? Psychology? Philosophy? History? And: as the page you linked to properly points out
by michael_dorfman 17y ago
Economics is a bogus subject?
What other subjects don't you approve of? Psychology? Philosophy? History?
And: as the page you linked to properly points out, the fact that Alfred Nobel didn't leave money in his will for an Economics prize didn't stop others from funding a prize in Nobel's memory, which is awarded by the same people who award the other Nobel Prizes, following the rules set down in Nobel's will. If the prize is good enough for the Nobel Foundation, it's good enough for me.
- jganetsk 17y agoIt's not a question of whether he approves or disapproves. It's a question of whether economics deserves a Nobel... do psychology, philosophy, and history have Nobels?
- jibiki 17y ago> What other subjects don't you approve of? Psychology? Philosophy? History? I suspect you'd find a surprising number of people on HN who think (most) psychology is bogus. Ditto for philosophy, nutrition, economics, etc. Any field where there is a long, unresolved disagreement about basic facts, comprehensible to lay people, will attract a certain level of skepticism (if the economists don't believe each other, how are we supposed to believe any of them.)