Among many other domestic terror groups who should be scaring the shit out of us as a nation.

I'll just leave the conversation if it's at that point. I sincerely wish you a good day.

We really need to avoid this thinking--again, one of Hayak's concern about this particular prize--that any of it comes down to "one person" or one set of research.

Maybe you didn't mean it this way but asking if a US citizen's name "sounds Western" is a charged thing to do in the current political climate.

Ah, gotcha. We're talking at cross-purposes a bit I think.

Thank you for being civil through this; I genuinely appreciate that and it's nice to meet someone else who cares about these issues.

If you'll recall I did mention that postcolonial economists have been discussing this issue.

You're the one telling me all about who he is and his background based on his name.

And again, you tell me whether or not Turkey's a Western nation. That debate's been around since before Turkey was Turkey--remember when the Ottoman Empire was the "Sick Man of Europe"?--and will probably go one for a lot longer.

It's pretty racist to judge people by their names. He's Turkish-American from an academic family, so make of that what you will. Whether or not Turkey is a Western nation is a long debate and I absolutely welcome your take on it.

As a quick semi-aside: 20 years isn't that long in academic research, and it's especially not that long when we're talking about colonialism/post-colonialism. It's a tremendous amount of time in the hard sciences I'm told but it's a mistake to apply that lens here.

My dude, generations historians, economists, and social critics from India and across sub-Saharan Africa have discussed these issues at length. There are libraries full of diverse works on the subject. The erasure of all that is on-brand for the Nobel Prize in Economics (which even Hayek said shouldn't exist in his own acceptance speech) and frankly on-brand for the Western academy as a whole.

I think the important bit is getting lost in the shuffle over particulars: This research and the conclusion it presents are not original to three Western men from a first-world university. They've been discussed and explored at length by the academies of the post-colonial states who are dealing with the aftereffects of their own colonial experiences. This is a Eurocentric/Western-centric move on the part of, frankly, a bunch of privileged and insulated people.

I think you've hit it on the head, in that it will be a question of how openly the next administration enables the horrors perpetuated by the Israeli government. What a time to be alive!

That is not true for the Nobel Prize in Economics, which is not one of the five official Nobel Prizes.

The Swedish government and the Swedish academy are notoriously myopic/tone deaf when it comes to these issues.

Sorry about that, I mistook you for someone else. The Royal Academy of Sciences doesn't administer the Nobel Prize for Economics, which isn't one of the five official Nobel Prizes and thus overseen by a complex mix of the Swedish government--including the Academy of Sciences--and the Sveringes Riksbank.

Oh boy, ethnic prejudice: my own academic researched focused on borders and migration in colonial and post-colonial states and I taught US and World History on both the high school and college level. Race, racism, the Atlantic Slave Trade, and colonialism/post-colonialism pervade all of those subjects and were constants throughout my curriculum.

Live long and prosper, my dude. Live long and prosper.

I suspect that post election we'll see a renewed push into Gaza and the West Bank. This feels a lot like Reagan and the Iran Hostage Crisis.

I'd bet money I don't have that "halted" means "delayed until after the US election". But that's the cynic in me . . .

I will bear all of that in mind. Have a good one. May the Force be with you.

He's already invaded Lebanon. I suspect Rafah's only been spared so they can focus on that.