And if we really want to go full pedant, the award isn't called anything in English at all, the real name is the "Sveriges riksbanks pris i ekonomisk vetenskap till Alfred Nobels minne"
But pedantry is silly, right?
Anyway, even the Nobel Foundation explicitly says it isn't a Nobel Prize:
> Not a Nobel Prize
> The prize in economic sciences is not a Nobel Prize.
I think that point about the nature of the price doesn't diminish the point that was being made. As much as it is a call to authority, weight of opinion of someone rewarded with that price is bigger than random voice on the internet.
That being said I think this thread starting with unsubstantiated criticism of Paul Krugman ideas/opinions is not constructive and rather useless.
> Not a Nobel Prize
> The prize in economic sciences is not a Nobel Prize.
Yes, you’re technically correct. But also, you missed the point and are being self-defeatingly pedantic. The economics prize is valued for all the reasons the Nobel prizes are; they carry similar prestige and are thus used interchangeably.
There's a Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Memory of Alfred Nobel.