Reputation of a Reputation

[Tim May]

On Monday, December 3, 2001, at 02:22 PM, Duncan Frissell wrote:
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> Special agents should read the Economist in addition to NLECTC Law 
> Enforcement & Corrections Technology News Summary 
> http://www.nlectc.org/.
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> http://WWW.economist.com/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=S%26%2BX%28%2FQ%21%3B%26%0A
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> The lemon dilemma
> Oct 11th 2001
> From The Economist print edition
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> This year's Nobel prize for economics honours work inspired by a simple 
> observation about used cars
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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