By 2012, I intend to make great contributions in the social science of Economics. I think I should send my contact information to the Noble Prize committee. This great advancement in the science of economics is an intention of mine which is strongly reinforced every time I glance over an issue of The Economist – the Finance and Economics section of course.
And I should add – not that it would matter to the Nobel Prize committee but for the rest of you – that I also majored in economics in college. During that period I was present in a couple of classes and many of the professors graded my papers personally.
But there is more. I am a man of the world. I have dual citizenship and I live in New York. Earlier in my life I was a member of the Greek Communist Youth (beat that Obama.) I know this last point must earn me a lot with the committee.
I’ll be accepting my Nobel Prize with a great sense of responsibility, knowing that without my intentions, aspirations and great potential, economics would not be where it is today.
Thank you.
6 responses so far
1 wrs10 // Oct 9, 2009 at 11:59 am
“I think I should send my contact information to the Noble Prize committee”
I would not bother – the serious Prizes are decided in Sweden, the Mickey Mouse Prizes are decided in Norway!!!!
2 sinz54 // Oct 9, 2009 at 12:35 pm
I think that Obama’s daughter Sasha should get the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for playing with her chemistry set.
3 ottovbvs // Oct 9, 2009 at 2:02 pm
October 9th, 2009 at 11:23 am by Napoleon Linardatos
…….Well it would help your application if you could spell Nobel correctly………given that you can’t I suspect they are unlikely to be over impressed with your economic knowledge!!!
sinz54 // Oct 9, 2009 at 12:35 pm
……….And hopefully Sasha’s childish jokes are more original than yours
4 Kevin B // Oct 9, 2009 at 2:19 pm
Go ahead. Good luck.
5 mlindroo // Oct 9, 2009 at 2:55 pm
> I think that Obama’s daughter Sasha should get the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
> for playing with her chemistry set.
Don’t overdo it, Sinz54…
Was it premature to award the peace prize to Obama? Yes!
Was it a totally ridiculous decision? In my opinion it wasn’t, since the selection committee tends to focus on contemporary initiatives to promote peace. For better or worse it is not a retrospective award such as e.g. the Chemistry price.
I think one great analogy is that the Nobel Peace Prize winner is a bit like the first overall pick of the National Basketball Association (or NHL, NFL) player draft. In both cases, the individual chosen is the one deemed to have the greatest potential. Naturally, some of these individuals later turn out to be “draft busts” which fizzle out despite the initial hype and hope. E.g. Yasser Arafat and the Oslo Accords come to mind…
In any case, I recall that David Frum and many other people in this forum were heaping scorn and ridicule on Obama last week for failing to bring the Olympics to Chicago despite all his smooth talk and diplomatic skill! If this was a setback for the prestige of the presidency, surely you have to give Obama even more credit now:-)
MARCU$
6 balconesfault // Oct 10, 2009 at 3:53 pm
The other side of the Nobel house gave a slap to the Bush Administration as well … with Elizabeth Blackburn (fired by Bush from the “President’s Council of Bioethics”) was a co-winner of the Nobel Prize for Medicine this week.
I await the critique from the right that it should have gone to one of Bush’s other apointees, like Dr. W. David Hager (responsible for the decision to revoke the FDA’s approval of the emergency birth control pill , Dr. Hager refuses to prescribe birth control to unmarried patients – and his wife has alleged that he raped her repeatedly while she was under treatment for narcolepsy) … or Dr. Alma Golden, Bush’s Deputy Assistant Secretary of Population Affairs, who advocated abstinence as the only acceptable means of birth control for everyone, including adults.
Clearly this is all political.
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