[ExI] nobel prize

[spike]

>… On Behalf Of William Flynn Wallace
Subject: [ExI] nobel prize

 

>…We could have said that Kahneman and Tversky's Nobel was psychology's first prize.  Now Richard Thaler has won it for behavioral economics - in other words, psychology.

 

>…Biology is also ripping us off:  now there is behavioral biology.

 

>…Well, it's OK.

 

bill w

 

 

BillW, the Nobel Prize is very famous, but there are some disciplines that will never get there.  The math world created the Fields Medal.  Perhaps psychology could create some kind of equivalent to Nobel and Fields.

 

spike

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