On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, Tim May wrote:
By the way, a topic I talked about a month or two ago, the bogus nature of the _Economics_ prize, has been in the news. Some of the descendants of the Nobel family want the Economics prize to have no connection to the name "Nobel."
Their claim is that Alfred Nobel didn't create or fund the prize, so why is it called "Nobel"?
I think the subtext is that the Econ prize is trivializing the other prizes.
It's actually called the "Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics". And even though "Moral Philosophy" is not a science, it is a bit easier to award reasonable prizes in than Literature and Peace. "Toni Morrison call your agent." DCF ---- "War was created so that men in primative societies would have a valid excuse for deserting the wife and kids."