Is it true that the Nobel Prize for economics can only be awarded to living economists?
All Nobel Prizes can only be awarded to living people. It’s part of the rules Alfred Nobel made up. It is true that in past that has led to some injustice, like people getting a Nobel Prize, but not their fellow discoverer, who died already. But Nobel’s idea was that the prize winners could use their prize money, to become more independent in their research/writings. Obviously that can’t apply to people already dead.
