• AnyOldName3@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    There’s no such thing as a Nobel Prize winning economist. Economists got upset that there wasn’t a Nobel Prize for them, so came up with The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, and then pretend it’s the same thing.

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      If you read some of the prize winning papers some of them are also hilarious, like how economists discovered that slavery is bad fairly recently.

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        Damn, I should become a *Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel* prize winning economist.