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		jedrek on Oct 8, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to John Hopfield an... The economics prize is not an actual Nobel prize, but something "inspired" by the Nobel prize. It's little more than a tool to push neoliberal policies to the public, with 34 of the 56 winners tied to the Chicago School of Economics.

77pt77 on Oct 9, 2024 [–]

They just hijacked the prestige of the field.

Like medical doctors did with the term doctor and psychiatrists by claiming they were doing medicine.

The list is almost endeless.

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