opinions of right wing economist editors notwithstanding it is by no means disruptive to point out the achingly obvious fact that the official name of this prize is currently the sveriges riksbank prize in economic sciences in memory of alfred nobel and that it is not a nobel prize and that colloquial names for the prize are not what should dictate the terms used by encyclopedias it should certainly be mentioned that nobel prize in economics is one of several commonly used shorthand terms for the prize but that fact does not alter those other facts