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by jhbadger 2489 days ago
The whole reason for the 1968 creation of the "Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel" (misleadingly often referred to as the Economics Nobel Prize, although Nobel had nothing to do with its creation) is to make the public think that it is a science on par with physics, physiology/medicine and chemistry, though.