How the Politics of the Nobel Prize Clouds Public Understanding of Important Global Issues Like Poverty

This year, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences to Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, andMichael Kremer for their pioneering work in attacking issues of education and health to provide real world solutions in attacking the global problems of poverty.  While I laud these two gentlemen and one woman for their wor…