Obama Gets the Nobel Peace Prize
for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples
I had thought he might eventually get it but this came much sooner than I expected. Anyway, good for him!
Paul Krugman Writes:
An interesting morning
A funny thing happened to me this morning …
in one of the best posts in the history of blogging.
Nobel Prizes 2008
As of this writing, only the Nobel Prize in economics has not been announced. The award ceremony is on Monday.
Winning brings not just fame but also a small fortune. Turning on the narcissist in me I cannot help but wonder what it would be like to win the prize. Would I accept Alfred Nobel’s blood money? In a politically correct world getting a peace prize by the creator of dynamite seems more puzzling than reconciling general relativity with quantum theory. Then again, things like this make life interesting.
