Nobel left his fortune to a foundation to maintain the prizes and the entire point was to award people that helped mankind. Furthermore the award is called &quot;Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel&quot; not &quot;The Nobel prize for economics&quot;. It was started by Sveriges Riksbank with a donation to the Nobel foundation. Everyone calls it the Nobel prize for economics because it&#x27;s administered by the same foundation, its mission is the same and it&#x27;s easier to say and for others to understand.<p>In my opinion pedantry for its own sake is a hallmark of reddit and it kind of chaps my ass that it seems to be cropping up more here.