What would Alfred Nobel say about prize for finance?
STOCKHOLM: The Nobel prize in economics, to be announced on Monday, has increasingly honoured research in the field of finance -- a subject which, observers note, is far from founder Alfred Nobel's philanthropic ideals.
The economics prize has always been set apart from the other Nobel awards, and the subject of much controversy: unlike the other awards, which were created in Nobel's 1895 will, the "Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel" was devised by the Swedish central bank in 1968 to mark its…