Nobel in Economics Given to Angus Deaton for Studies of Consumption

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/13/business/angus-deaton-nobel-economics.html?_r=0

by sonabinu • 11 years ago

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dang• 11 years ago

Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10376175 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10373768.

onoj3• 11 years ago

there is no Nobel prize in economics.

http://www.alternet.org/economy/there-no-nobel-prize-economi...

inefficient• 11 years ago

The Nobel committee would disagree: http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/

Things change. For all intents and purposes, this is a nobel prize in economics, given that the winners are referred to as Nobel laureates by the Nobel committee.

If anything, I think we put a bit too much weight in these awards in general which leads to silly articles like this one.

This shouldn't necessarily be taken as support for the economic research selected for prizes as much as a response to attacking the prize on the basis of it being in economics.

mtw• 11 years ago

It would make more sense to have a Nobel prize in mathematics than in economic science.

Mikeb852• 11 years ago

While you're right in the sense that it wasn't established by Alfred Nobel, most of the criticism in your article is nonsense.

The 'Economics isn't science' defence doesn't hold when you've got 'literature' and 'peace' prizes.

onoj3• 11 years ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_Memorial_Prize_l...

It was not established by Mr. Nobel, the name was taken. The family does not acknowledge it. To me this is disrespectful to the man who set up the prize in his name.

MC7447a• 11 years ago

there is no Nobel prize in economics

http://dilbert.com/strip/2015-04-02

Nobel in Economics Given to Angus Deaton for Studies of Consumption

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