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The Nobel Prize for Economics is not part of the same org as the other Nobels. It was invented by bankers that felt left out of the prestige, which of course they should be, economics isn't a science and their approach to issuing prizes is just whatever they feel like every year.
As an example, Paul Krugman is an actual fool, like he says really embarrassingly foolish things all the time, and they gave a prize to that guy because he spent his time writing apologetics for imperialist trade networks. I would feel awful to be endorsed by many Economics Nobel winners. It means I did something very wrong.
Anyways I do recommend that every read up on economic topics, particularly political economics. It will look opaque at first, but it is actually not a particularly deep field, you can understand enough of it to critically engage with just a few years of casual reading. And then you can form your own opinions on policy.