re: #92 garhighway

And it doesn’t necessarily mean that you win for your current work. Rather, in Krugman’s case, it’s work he did more than 15 years ago.

Economics and science Nobels are often given long after the original work was done - when there’s some perspective on the import of the work.

The Nobel Prize for Peace and the Literature Prize are often given on the basis of politics, and carry far less weight than the hard sciences. After all, it’s hard to argue against Einstein getting a Nobel Prize, but giving one to Arafat despite being an unrepentant terrorist was pure politics to try and bribe Arafat to take a different path. Likewise, Obama received a Nobel prize merely for not being Bush. Neither was deserving, but both received awards out of politics.