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by onoj 3906 days ago
It was not intended to be pedantry, though you are within your rights to see it as such. If you don't perceive a central bank with an interest in legitimizing a field of human endeavor for it's own interests as wrong. As other articles have noted, there are many other fields that may be more deserving of a prize. Given the economic damage that the recipients of the prize have caused, can we really say that it advances human knowledge in any other way than identifying what is wrong?

That is a very different impact than the majority of the other awards.

(edited typos)

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If you had lead with this instead of taking issue with the name I wouldn't have accused you of pedantry. That said, I am sorry for being so negative. I'd seen several instances of that sort of behavior in the prior days and I was more annoyed than I should have been.