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cladopa | 4 months ago

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rmccue|4 months ago

This always comes up with this prize, but it’s generally considered one of the Nobel prizes, although it’s not one of the original prizes. Your opinion on whether it should count is up to you, but to call it media manipulation is reading a lot of malice into it.

stackskipton|4 months ago

Argument is that economists knew exactly what would happen when they got linked with Nobel Prizes and help solidify economics as hard science like physics, medicine or math in eyes of the public. Begin debate around how scientific is some economics.

tomschwiha|4 months ago

That sounds a bit harsh - probably more simplification than manipulation.

AlecSchueler|4 months ago

Your quote says Nobel Memorial Prize or what am I missing?

signatoremo|4 months ago

In a piece about life and death, about the will to live a full life, you choose pettiness.

croes|4 months ago

> But some media just want to manipulate its readers.

Obviously not bluewin.ch