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[edit] Bank of Sweden Prize in Economics

There is no such thing as a Nobel Prize in Economics. Nobel never instituted a prize for economics, nor would he. Economists have free-rided the event to enhance their profession. The Bank of Sweden Prize for Economics was instituted with public money, tipical, and they forced their hand to be given at the same date. The marketing ploy is in the "In Memory of Alfred Nobel", which belies a laugh. Not even the most liberal economist would honor a monopolist business man, warmonger, inventor of Dynamite, suplier of the military. Only wikipedia can tell the truth. Britanica hires economists to write about the Nobel Prize in Economics and spread the small lie around.

== There most certainly is a Nobel Prize in Economics. OK, it's called "Economic Sciences". -- Zoe

The question is whether it's really a Nobel prize. It wasn't established by Nobel's will, but by the Bank of Sweden many years later. Vicki Rosenzweig

I removed some false information that claimed he has retired. He is in fact still teaching as of 2003. See http://www.src.uchicago.edu/users/gsb1/ MB 17:31 22 Jul 2003 (UTC)

[edit] Becker Uses Wikipedia

Gary Becker uses Wikipedia and cites it as an authoritative source...

look for yourselves... (he spells it wrong though)

http://www.becker-posner-blog.com/archives/2005/10/response_on_pri.html

[edit] Edit to infobox

Per MOS Infoboxes, the purpose of an infobox is "to summarize key facts about the article in which it appears". Not explicitly stated here, but well understood in practice is the notion that material in an infobox is deliberately redundant; any item in an infobox should be found, almost always with supporting references, in the main text of the article.

The infobox for an economist mirrors that purpose, but is more explicit: "Entries in influences, opposed, influenced, and contributions should be explained in the main text of one of the articles. Those that are not mentioned in the main text may be deleted."

Based upon these policy reasons, I've removed the entries in the "influences" and "influenced" fields.--SPhilbrick T 00:15, 14 October 2011 (UTC)

Talk:Gary Becker

[edit] Bank of Sweden Prize in Economics

[edit] Becker Uses Wikipedia

[edit] Edit to infobox

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