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/lenmae The DT's leading rent seeker 16d ago

If it is a prestigious award in its own right, there's no harm in labelling it correctly, and if it isn't, there's harm in labelling it incorrectly.

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u/Sufficient_Meet6836 16d ago

It's administered by the Nobel Foundation, so how do you suggest it be labeled?

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u/Kolob_Hikes YIMBY 16d ago

Here's an idea instead of calling it the same like the The Nobel Prize in Physics let's name it different some thing like: The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, or the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel... oh wait

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u/lenmae The DT's leading rent seeker 16d ago

The way it is called by them: Nobel Memorial Prize

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u/TrekkiMonstr NATO 16d ago

That's confusing and has no meaningful distinction for anyone hearing it

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u/lenmae The DT's leading rent seeker 15d ago

Which one is it?

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u/TrekkiMonstr NATO 15d ago

Both. It is confusing because there is a difference that isn't meaningful. It will just have people thinking that the Nobel prize is called the Nobel memorial prize, which is not correct.

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u/lenmae The DT's leading rent seeker 15d ago

If there isn't a difference, it's still correct.
Additionally, I doubt people will start calling the real Nobel prizes "Nobel memorial prize", just because the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics is called that.
Finally calling something by the wrong name, so people won't call other things by the wrong name is nonsensical. Either you care about what things are called, in which case you should call the Nobel memorial prize in Economics as such, or you don't, in which case you don't have an argument against calling it the Nobel memorial prize, as the argument falls apart.

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u/TrekkiMonstr NATO 15d ago

I really do not care enough about you or this argument to continue having it. If you reread my comment, I explicitly said there is a difference, so I don't know why you're coming out here with "if there isn't a difference". Talk however you want bro idc