Nobel invented dynamite, you know.

Long Island Business News: Economists propose wage hike
More than 650 economists, including five winners of the Nobel Prize for economics, called for an increase in the minimum wage, saying the value of the last increase, in 1997, has been "fully eroded."

Instant translation: With all that prize money, we, your moral and intellectual superiors, need not worry about the inflationary ramifications of our political beliefs.