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Might be good not to mention that, because it is wrong.

* The Nobel memorial prize for economics is indeed given by a Nobel Committee[1] of the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences, just like the natural science and medicine prizes.

* It has been endowed by the Swedish Riksbank, which is a central bank and part of the Swedish government equivalent to the Federal Reserve in the US. If the importance of the difference between "a Swedish bank" and "the Swedish central bank" is not apparent to you, you should read up on it.

[1] https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economic-sciences/pr...



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