Nobel Prize

The Nobel refers to the prestigious Nobel Prizes awarded annually for achievements in physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, peace, and—since 1969—economics (the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences). The claims discuss the Nobel committee, the economics prize’s controversial origins, and its outsized influence and prestige-shaping effects on fields like economics.

Claims that use this term

• The Nobel committee paired Hayek and Myrdal partly as a joke and backlog-clearing.
• The Nobel prize shaped American economics despite official denials
• The Nobel family never approved the economics prize as a whole
• The Nobel economics prize was created to win public deference for central bank independence
• The Nobel economics prize was created to manufacture science-like prestige, not to honor it