It’s great, the Nobel Prize. And perhaps not random that the two countries, Sweden and Norway, stewarded with evaluating nominees and awarding the prize have emerged as among the most enlightened, which, additionally, proffers the awards’ credibility and gravitas. Everyone
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seems to have their favorite subject. Personally, though an engineer, I look forward to the winners of Literature and Economics. This year, I was hoping that the pseudonymous writer Elena Ferrante and economist Robert Gordon would win, but look forward to learning more about
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American poet Louise Gluck and Stanford’s Robert Wilson and Paul Milgrom. Sometimes one has previously read or dealt with a recent winner’s work, but, in my layman case, I’m usually introduced to new brilliance that has eluded my antennae. For instance, while traveling in
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Hungary, from Budapest to Szeged, I bought an English copy of Hungarian novelist Imre Kertesz’s Fateless, just honored with a Nobel Prize. I’ve never thought about the Holocaust or Fascism the same or as simplistically since.https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/2-stanford-economists-win-nobel-prize-for-auction-theory?fbclid=IwAR19T5m1sYXgWiXG7JOiAlWODYx59CCvZ8owf-9RxLj8l81B6APXUAY0eXs …
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