Date: Mon, 27 May 1996 20:54:55 -0700
Subject: Re: Nobel nuttiness


Jerry:

"There's some story I heard back on PEN-L many moons ago about how some
conservatives paid [!] the Nobel Committee to give out Nobels in economics
and they are not really Nobel Prizes, only awards or somesuch. Dr. Blood,
do you remember the full story?"

That, from my understanding, is quite correct.  The Nobel in economics is 
actuall the "Nobel Memorial Prize" and is funded by a group of European Banks.

This is, unfortunately, only hearsay; it came from an undergraduate professor in 
a discussion of Paul Krugman's _Peddling Prosperity_ last year.  I'd appreciate 
some firm confirmation of this myself.

Yours &c.,
Jeff Johnson
"Amicus Socrates, amicus Plato, sed
 magis amica veritas" --Aristotle



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