Isn't the Nobel prize both an indicator of status and a recognition of great insight and progress in certain fields?
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It is less so than it appears.
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So monopolies of status and attention reduce incentives for innovation. Just like in any other market.
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While the marketing and PR departments of the monopolists write hagiographies about themselves and their respective intellectual industries.
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A more practical implication: those who actually want to contribute more to progress should spend more effort convincing high status indivs to adopt their position as that of the high standard individual's own.
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"In the histories they tell, high status intellectuals suggest that status in their field is given out mainly for inducing insight & progress." examples?
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