{"id":88437,"date":"2025-12-14T15:44:50","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T15:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=88437"},"modified":"2025-12-14T15:44:50","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T15:44:50","slug":"another-dud-nobel-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/12\/14\/another-dud-nobel-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Another dud Nobel prize?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Nobel Prize Committee has <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/nobelprize\/status\/2000162627561959909?s=66&amp;t=fQEnD35XLiGihXLT1M1wyA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">posted this on Twitter (X)<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-88438\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-14-at-15.34.08-550x631.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"631\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-14-at-15.34.08-550x631.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-14-at-15.34.08-261x300.png 261w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-14-at-15.34.08-768x881.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-14-at-15.34.08-349x400.png 349w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-14-at-15.34.08.png 962w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So here are my questions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Has technological growth run its course, then, as growth clearly has?<\/li>\n<li>How could growth do anything but run out on a finite planet?<\/li>\n<li>Doesn't growth depend on the equitable distribution of the gains from growth?<\/li>\n<li>Has there been an equitable sharing of gains from growth of late?<\/li>\n<li>If not, what are the consequences?<\/li>\n<li>How are those consequences addressed?<\/li>\n<li>What happens if growth:\n<ul>\n<li>is intended to destroy jobs?<\/li>\n<li>does actually destroy jobs?<\/li>\n<li>denies resources such as water and power to those who will be left in absolute need as a result?<\/li>\n<li>threatens the future viability of life on much of Earth, at the very least?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Answering those questions could be worth a Nobel prize.<\/p>\n<p>Suggesting \u201cToday economists widely agree that long-term economic growth is powered through technological progress\u201d looks horribly like another dud Nobel prize to me.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>Comments\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>When commenting, please take note of this blog\u2019s comment policy,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/about\/comments\/\">which is available here<\/a>. Contravening this policy will result in comments being deleted before or after initial publication at the editor\u2019s sole discretion and without explanation being required or offered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nobel Prize Committee has posted this on Twitter (X): So here are my questions: Has technological growth run its course, then, as growth clearly<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/12\/14\/another-dud-nobel-prize\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88439,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88437\/revisions\/88439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}