http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=49310 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Fri, 24 May 2013 22:14:54 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=49310#post-142304 Mon, 08 Oct 2012 10:23:42 +0000 roybland 142304@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Chancellor George Osborne will not be awarded this year's Nobel prize for economics, according to rumours circulating in Stockholm. </p> <p>Osborne was thought to be in line for the prize - to be announced on 15 October - in recognition of his groundbreaking 'pasty tax' contribution to economics which some observers have compared in importance to the Keynesian multiplier equation.</p> <p>'George will be bitterly disappointed not to pick up the prize,' said a government minister. 'No other economist but George could have come up with the pasty tax.'</p> <p>But it's believed Osborne is still hopeful that he might be in line for the Nobel prize for physics in recognition of his original contribution to U-turn theory. </p>