I feared that such a prize, as I believe is true of the activities of some of the great scientific foundations, would tend to accentuate the swings of scientific fashion. This apprehension the selection committee has brilliantly refuted by awarding the prize to one whose views are as unfashionable as mine are.

I must confess that if I had been consulted whether to establish a Nobel Prize in economics, I should have decidedly advised against it.

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