Barack Obama, Bob Dylan and Milton Friedman: Is the Nobel Prize a Scam?

Marianne

Lean Left

Factuality

Ownership

For nearly 125 years, the Nobel Prize has attracted covetousness and unleashed passions. Overall, and despite failures that caused a great deal of ink to flow, the nobelized are often consensual choices, not calling into question the established order, as the journalists Christine Kerdellant and Daniel Temam point out in their book "The Nobel Prize: prestige and imposture" (L的Observatoire, 2025).