Lol Economists.
Remember these two? Myron Scholes and Robert Merto. They won a Nobel price on 1994 based on some derivatives model idea they had then started a hedge fund based on that model. They failed miserably and lost billions.
ofc, what do you expect? nobody remember that now... Nobel Prize is like a circus, only think that really matter is the ammount of $ that it generates...
I think most of us here would agree the creator of bitcoin should deserve one but doubt he would ever be considered.
if people are honest, bitcoin is by far the best innovative technology in the last years, but people have his own interest and vanity....