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[-] FlowVoid@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

You did. Is there one economist in particular who you think contributed more to this field than the actual winners?

[-] MHSJenkins@infosec.pub 1 points 3 hours ago

We really need to avoid this thinking--again, one of Hayak's concern about this particular prize--that any of it comes down to "one person" or one set of research.

[-] FlowVoid@lemmy.world 1 points 49 minutes ago* (last edited 42 minutes ago)

I don't think any field of any research comes down to one person. Nevertheless, academics recognize that some people make greater contributions than others.

This is baked into academia in the form of citation. At the moment you wrote your first bibliography you distinguished those who made significant contributions to your own work. It would have been unacceptable to write an academic bibliography consisting of a single line: "All those who came before".

And even though research is always a collaborative effort, like soccer and filmmaking, it is natural for humans to recognize those who made the greatest contributions. That's why we award MVPs to athletes, Oscars to actors, and Nobels to economists.

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