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It's all a big lie. There is no "Nobel Prize" in Economics.

The fake Nobel economics prize was part of a ploy to de-democratize control over economic decisions. And it worked!

Yasha Levine
Oct 13, 2020
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Another year, another round of Nobel Prizes, and yet another opportunity to remind people that — unlike the other Nobel Prizes — there is no actual Nobel Prize in Economics. There never has been. 

The fake Nobel prize in economics was part of a propaganda ploy hatched in the 1960s by Sweden’s activist central bank to imbue neoclassical (aka neoliberal) e…

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