It was not intended to be pedantry, though you are within your rights to see it as such. If you don&#x27;t perceive a central bank with an interest in legitimizing a field of human endeavor for it&#x27;s own interests as wrong.
As other articles have noted, there are many other fields that may be more deserving of a prize. 
Given the economic damage that the recipients of the prize have caused, can we really say that it advances human knowledge in any other way than identifying what is wrong?<p>That is a very different impact than the majority of the other awards.<p>(edited typos)