October 14, 2010
Nassim Nicholas Taleb says investors should sue the Nobel prize committee for awarding the prize to economists whose theories led to the global economic downturn.
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Is Taleb going to chip in some of his fortune earned from trading at banks and running hedge funds? In Black Swan he made a good stab at painting the Nobel prize for economics as being ridiculous. Then again just how relevant are the Nobel prizes today? Should we be taking much notice of a private committee?