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2023 Nobel Prize in economics awarded to Claudia Goldin

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Re: 2023 Nobel Prize in economics awarded to Claudia Goldin

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Post by ghaff »

oldgradstudent wrote: post #14
em500 wrote: post #7

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If the ACM, instead of founding the Turing award, had attempted to pay to get a Nobel memorial prize in Computer Science, we would have easily recognized it for what it was - a pathetic play for respectability.

Or an acceptance of the fact that many orders of magnitude more people would recognize that a Nobel Prize in Computer Science represented a notable achievement than would have any idea what the Turing award is and why they should care.

(Obviously they didn't and there are many important awards in their respective fields that don't have Nobel in their titles but it's hard to dispute that the Nobel prizes carry a lot of brand recognition.)

Re: 2023 Nobel Prize in economics awarded to Claudia Goldin

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Post by blululu »

oldgradstudent wrote: post #14
em500 wrote: post #7

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If the ACM, instead of founding the Turing award, had attempted to pay to get a Nobel memorial prize in Computer Science, we would have easily recognized it for what it was - a pathetic play for respectability.

The name Computer Science itself is a marketing ploy to convince people that it is a real science (and not just another branch of engineering). Seems to be working for CS, and I can easily imagine people on this forum would be happy to defend the legitimacy of the Swedish Institute of Sciences Nobel Memorial Prize in Computational Science.

I think the issue is not an objection to marketing but an objection to the inherently political nature of economics. The people who don't like the phrase Noble Prize in Economics generally don't agree with the political aspirations of neoliberal economists to shape and control global policy. There is something very troubling about the amount of power that central bankers and academics wield given how flimsy their methods are.

Re: 2023 Nobel Prize in economics awarded to Claudia Goldin

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Post by heresie-dabord »

jncfhnb wrote: post #4

> Goldin showed that female participation in the labour market did not have an upward trend over this entire period, but instead forms a U-shaped curve. The participation of married women decreased with the transition from an agrarian to an industrial society in the early nineteenth century, but then started to increase with the growth of the service sector in the early twentieth century. Goldin explained this patter…

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Re: 2023 Nobel Prize in economics awarded to Claudia Goldin

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Post by countafactual »

blululu wrote: post #13
jncfhnb wrote: post #4

> Goldin showed that female participation in the labour market did not have an upward trend over this entire period, but instead forms a U-shaped curve. The participation of married women decreased with the transition from an agrarian to an industrial society in the early nineteenth century, but then started to increase with the growth of the service sector in the early twentieth century. Goldin explained this patter…

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Re: 2023 Nobel Prize in economics awarded to Claudia Goldin

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Post by jeltz »

baq wrote: post #6
jncfhnb wrote: post #4

> Goldin showed that female participation in the labour market did not have an upward trend over this entire period, but instead forms a U-shaped curve. The participation of married women decreased with the transition from an agrarian to an industrial society in the early nineteenth century, but then started to increase with the growth of the service sector in the early twentieth century. Goldin explained this patter…

Plenty of unintuitive results in science. Economics is especially prone to fallacies, so proof and data is welcome.

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Re: 2023 Nobel Prize in economics awarded to Claudia Goldin

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Post by extraduder_ire »

em500 wrote: post #7

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I do think it's funny that the economics prize is the one that "bought" its way into this prestige.

Little to no opinion on what it should be called, personally. The asterisk associated with the name is just what comes to mind first.

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