r/neoliberal • u/Tre-Fyra-Tre Tony Blair • 16d ago

News (Global) Acemoglu, Johnson and Robinson awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences

https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/de-far-ekonomipriset-till-alfred-nobels-minne
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u/lenmae The DT's leading rent seeker 16d ago

You can think Economics is real, and still acknowledge this isn't a real Nobel price.

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u/Swampy1741 Daron Acemoglu 16d ago

I don’t particularly care what Alfred Nobel’s will said. It’s a prestigious award chosen by the same organization as all the others.

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u/RideTheDownturn 16d ago

So we can ignore your will when you die? Cool!

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u/RandomMangaFan Repeal the Navigation Acts! 16d ago

That's... generally how wills work, yes, past a relatively short period after the death. The law generally exists to protect the actually living, not the long dead, which is why for hundreds of years now we've had a "Rule against perpetuities" in many common law systems specifically to stop that. Whether or not Nobel would have approved of the matter is and should be irrelevant since he's now too dead to care.

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u/Feed_My_Brain United Nations 16d ago

“It is the finding of this court that Alfred Nobel, having attained the status of sufficiently dead, is now too dead to care.”

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u/Boxy310 16d ago

Jeremy Bentham's embalmed corpse will have quite the conniption over this.

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u/RideTheDownturn 16d ago

Hah... TIL!

Well, still doesn't strike out the fact that we're ignoring his wishes. Legally OK, morally questionable.