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by famouswaffles 617 days ago
The General Public and Economists hold it in the same regard as other Nobel Prizes so appeal to 'formality' is pointless. The social recognition is the point of these awards so if it has that and is also often called the "Nobel Prize in Economics" then it's a Nobel Prize. They're literally announced and awarded together.

Nobody but a few nitpicks care about your distinction because it's not a real one. Might as well say "Money is not valuable because the material it's made up of has little intrinsic value". Well no, Money is valuable because society has decided it is.

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It is also my prerogative not to care about your opinion. You claimed you come across this a lot and don't get it. I just told you. Take it or leave it.
>It is also my prerogative not to care about your opinion.

Sure

>You claimed you come across this a lot and don't get it. I just told you. Take it or leave it.

I'm not OP. And i don't think a few comments on Nobel prize threads is a lot in the first place. Nothing for me to "take".