On Monday, December 3, 2001, at 02:22 PM, Duncan Frissell wrote:
Special agents should read the Economist in addition to NLECTC Law Enforcement & Corrections Technology News Summary http://www.nlectc.org/.
http://WWW.economist.com/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=S%26%2BX%28%2FQ%21%3B%26%...
The lemon dilemma Oct 11th 2001 From The Economist print edition
This year's Nobel prize for economics honours work inspired by a simple observation about used cars
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. "Economists win for "lemon analysis"" does not quite compare with discovering basic laws of physics or chemistry, for example. --Tim May "Dogs can't conceive of a group of cats without an alpha cat." --David Honig, on the Cypherpunks list, 2001-11