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On 2016-05-09 20:35, spike wrote:<br>
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that too Dave, and recall that the Nobel committee
awarded one of these prizes to the current POTUS before
he had actually done anything. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
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more ironic is that they awarded the prize for his
promotion of nuclear non-proliferation.</span></p>
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It is worth recalling that Nobel committee for peace is based in
Norway (a deliberate choice by Alfred). And that the economics prize
is actually to his memory and founded by the Swedish national bank,
not Nobel himself. Both have had a fair share of stupid choices (and
IMHO more than the science and literature prizes). <br>
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The real issue is not Krugman's putative brilliance but whether his
arguments are right. Do we know *any* economists who think Trump
knows what he is doing?<br>
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Anders Sandberg
Future of Humanity Institute
Oxford Martin School
Oxford University</pre>
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