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Trio of professors win Nobel economics prize for work on post-colonial wealth
(www.theguardian.com)
Alt title: 3 Old White Men Discover Colonialsm Bad
this post was submitted on 14 Oct 2024
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The Nobel Prize is awarded after a lifetime of work, not the latest news.
The 2022 Nobel Prize in physics was awarded for describing the violation of Bell inequalities. The initial experiments were performed in the 80s and the results are "not news" to many current high school physics teachers.
That is not true for the Nobel Prize in Economics, which is not one of the five official Nobel Prizes.
I think the important bit is getting lost in the shuffle over particulars: This research and the conclusion it presents are not original to three Western men from a first-world university. They've been discussed and explored at length by the academies of the post-colonial states who are dealing with the aftereffects of their own colonial experiences. This is a Eurocentric/Western-centric move on the part of, frankly, a bunch of privileged and insulated people.
Does "Daron Acemoğlu" sound like a Western name to you?
Excuse me?
How am I judging him?
And do tell me what person of any real importance considers Turkey to be a Western country.
That is not an explanation of how I am judging him or how I am a racist.
And I did tell you that Turkey is not a Western country by asking you to tell me what person of any person of any real importance considers it so. Because it isn't a Western country and no person of any real importance considers it so.
You have already violated our civility rule by calling me a racist. I'm beginning to think you're just a troll... unless, of course, you explain how I was racist and judging him.
"Maybe you didn't mean it this way" is neither an explanation for how I judged him nor how I am a racist.
You have one more chance before you take a break for trolling a moderator. I was willing to overlook you calling me a racist at first, but you've decided to keep doubling down.
You were given one last chance to explain your accusation and you blew it.
Why should anyone care what Nobel's descendants think?