Alt title: 3 Old White Men Discover Colonialsm Bad
Quick reminder that the “Nobel prize in economics” is not actually a Nobel Prize.
(I didn’t know this for a very long time, so this may be news to some people reading this.)
That is interesting to know but I feel that Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences is a bit long and the distinction is not really that meaningful.
Either the research is good or it isn’t.
People keep attacking the price simply because it was not sponsored by Nobel himself as if only that direct connection to him transferred some sense of divine truthfulness to the other Nobel prizes that this one lacks.
. . . I used to teach this to high school sophomores in World History. To whom is this news?
It’s kind of nice to see formal studies on it though - it might help with aide advocacy.
I’d like that to be true but the reality is the folks in charge will self-congratulate for a moment and then move on to the next “raising awareness” du jour.
Economists = a giant cocaine fueled circle jerk.
*The Nobel Prize Committee
…consisting of guys born to a fantastic level of wealth who all have to pretend inequality doesn’t exist in any capacity what so ever in order to make any of their theories work.
. . . brought to you by some of the same people behind this little gem: https://www.npr.org/2012/04/20/151047929/racist-cake-episode-cuts-swedes-the-wrong-way
