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The Question that the Nobel will Kindle Unlike the original five prizes named in Alfred Nobel’s will more than a century ago

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    Unlike the original five prizes named in Alfred Nobel’s will more than a century ago, the economics award—formally called the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel—was created in 1968 by the nation’s central bank in honor of its 300th anniversary. But it isn’t so much bloodlines that have stirred up dismay as the kind of work that has often been honored.
    "They’re not engaged in the problems of the actual world." Said James K. Galbraith, an economist at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas in Austin, voicing an all too common complaint that much of the Nobel-anointed economic work seems out of touch with reality.
    Complaints about prize winners generally fall into one of three categories: too ideological; too preoccupied with theory and mathe-matics; or too narrowly focused on problems facing Wall Street instead of on pressing global issues like inequality, poverty and the environment.
    That’s not how Gary S. Becker—an economist at the University of Chicago who won the 1992 prize for applying economic theory to a wide range of human behavior, including crime and racial discrimination— sees it. " People have different judgments about what constitutes the biggest contribution," he said, but he maintains that the winners "do reflect the most important work in economics" and that the work being honored is " useful in understanding how societies work".
    The hard-science prizes were certainly the model for the newest Nobel. Yet the notion that economics is scientific, said Jeff Madrick, the director of policy research at the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis at the New School in New York, is " highly exaggerated".
    Mr. Madrick not only doubts that significant contributions in the field can be limited to those based on econometrics but also questions whether that type of work is as unbiased as is often claimed. "The Nobel prize has become quite a political animal," he said, "in the disguise of being scientifically pure."
    This was the heart of the complaint from the Nobel winner Gunnar Myrdal. In a 1977 letter to a Swedish newspaper, he rejected the idea that the field of economics could claim a Nobel on the basis of its scientific rigor. Economics should concern itself with political and social needs, he argued, and he called for an end to the prize in economics. The free-market conservative Friedrich von Hayek, who shared the Nobel in economics with Myrdal in 1974 despite being his ideological opposite, agreed on that point.
Which of the following is NOT the complaint about the Nobel Prize in economic sciences according to the text?
选项 A、Economic science is very abstract.
B、Economic science is not a true science.
C、Economic science is too simple.
D、Economic science only focuses on financial problems.
答案C
解析 细节题。选项A、D与第三段内容相符(对诺贝尔经济学奖得主的抱怨主要集中在三个方面：过于意识形态化、过于理论和数学化和过于狭隘地关注华尔街所面临的问题……)；C与此相反；B可从第5段和第6段的第2句内容中推出来(认为经济学是一门科学的观点“非常夸张”。诺贝尔奖已经成为了一种伪装于科学纯洁光环下的政治动物)。因此，C为本题的正确答案。
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