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by alecco 978 days ago
Mandatory "not a real Nobel Prize"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Memorial_Prize_in_Econ...

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> He explained that "Nobel despised people who cared more about profits than society's well-being", saying that "There is nothing to indicate that he would have wanted such a prize", and that the association with the Nobel prizes is "a PR coup by economists to improve their reputation".

To be fair I would definitely consider Goldin’s work the kind of work that improves society and hence that Nobel would want awarded.