re: Trump is tweeting about "lightweight thinker" Paul Krugman

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I read an article last year that said it's not really a Nobel prize. He won an award with the name Nobel that was not affiliated with the real Nobel prize. IDK, but I've been reading Krugman's predictions for decades and he's always wrong.

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Maybe you question where you read it from then. It’s not Nobel in the sense that Alfred Nobel established it, but it is a Nobel prize

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Krugman was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (informally the Nobel Prize in Economics), the sole recipient for 2008. This prize includes an award of about $1.4 million and was given to Krugman for his work associated with New Trade Theory and the New Economic Geography.[83] In the words of the prize committee, "By having integrated economies of scale into explicit general equilibrium models, Paul Krugman has deepened our understanding of the determinants of trade and the location of economic activity."[84]

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The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, commonly referred to as the Nobel Prize in Economics,[2] is an award for outstanding contributions to the field of economics,[3] and generally regarded as the most prestigious award for that field. The award's official name is The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (Swedish: Sveriges riksbanks pris i ekonomisk vetenskap till Alfred Nobels minne).[4][5][6]

The prize was established in 1968 by a donation from Sweden's central bank Sveriges Riksbank to the Nobel Foundation to commemorate the bank's 300th anniversary.[3][7][8][9] As it is not one of the prizes that Alfred Nobel established in his will in 1895, it is not technically a Nobel Prize.[10] However, it is administered and referred to along with the Nobel Prizes by the Nobel Foundation.[11] Laureates are announced with the Nobel Prize laureates, and receive the award at the same ceremony.[3]