The Nobel committee would disagree: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nobelprize.org&#x2F;nobel_prizes&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nobelprize.org&#x2F;nobel_prizes&#x2F;</a><p>Things change. For all intents and purposes, this is a nobel prize in economics, given that the winners are referred to as Nobel laureates by the Nobel committee.<p>If anything, I think we put a bit too much weight in these awards in general which leads to silly articles like this one.<p>This shouldn&#x27;t necessarily be taken as support for the economic research selected for prizes as much as a response to attacking the prize on the basis of it being in economics.