[standalonematt]

What about the economics prize (I know, not a real nobel prize) going to members of the free/open source software community. Their works have really shown that great things can be built by a community of people, with limited central leadership and without a clear profit motive.

[philwelch]

The economics prize usually goes to an economist, not to someone who actually demonstrates something about the economy in practice.

[standalonematt]

Thanks for that - I don't really know much about the criteria for awarding the economics prize.