It's not a random person who picked up the name. Nobel established the various prizes in his will to be administered by certain committees and it is one of those committees that added the prize in economics to be awarded under the same criteria and at the same time as the other prizes.
It is definitely notable that that the prize in economics is not one of the original prizes and I would never argue that it is. But acting like there is no strong relationship between the two that one would claim that a Nobel Prize in economics just doesn't exist is I think misguided. There is such a prize, it is not one of the original prizes and does have a different history, but it is strongly related to the other prizes.
It is definitely notable that that the prize in economics is not one of the original prizes and I would never argue that it is. But acting like there is no strong relationship between the two that one would claim that a Nobel Prize in economics just doesn't exist is I think misguided. There is such a prize, it is not one of the original prizes and does have a different history, but it is strongly related to the other prizes.