That's why I called it an "almost Nobel Prize". Unfortunately, at the rate we're going, all of the hard sciences will be political soon, too.

The Peace Prize probably has an even worse track record than the Econ Prize. One of the reasons the hard science prizes aren't as embarrassing is that they usually wait much longer to award them. That let's them see if the discovery really was a big deal. Maybe the Peace Prize can at least wait until the person is out of office, just in case he starts drone bombing children all over the world.