Alt title: 3 Old White Men Discover Colonialsm Bad

  • Michael H. Jenkins
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    1 month ago

    That is not true for the Nobel Prize in Economics, which is not one of the five official Nobel Prizes.

      • Michael H. Jenkins
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        I think the important bit is getting lost in the shuffle over particulars: This research and the conclusion it presents are not original to three Western men from a first-world university. They’ve been discussed and explored at length by the academies of the post-colonial states who are dealing with the aftereffects of their own colonial experiences. This is a Eurocentric/Western-centric move on the part of, frankly, a bunch of privileged and insulated people.

            • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM
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              Excuse me?

              How am I judging him?

              And do tell me what person of any real importance considers Turkey to be a Western country.

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                  You’re the one telling me all about who he is and his background based on his name.

                  That is not an explanation of how I am judging him or how I am a racist.

                  And I did tell you that Turkey is not a Western country by asking you to tell me what person of any person of any real importance considers it so. Because it isn’t a Western country and no person of any real importance considers it so.

                  You have already violated our civility rule by calling me a racist. I’m beginning to think you’re just a troll… unless, of course, you explain how I was racist and judging him.

      • Hugohase@startrek.website
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        Some critics argue that the prestige of the Prize in Economic Sciences derives in part from its association with the Nobel Prizes, an association that has often been a source of controversy. Among them is the Swedish human rights lawyer Peter Nobel, a great-grandnephew of Alfred Nobel.[40]

        Nobel accuses the awarding institution of misusing his family’s name, and states that no member of the Nobel family has ever had the intention of establishing a prize in economics.[41] He explained that “Nobel despised people who cared more about profits than society’s well-being”, saying that “There is nothing to indicate that he would have wanted such a prize”, and that the association with the Nobel prizes is “a PR coup by economists to improve their reputation”.[40]