Nobel Peace Price- A Specific Example Of Government Failure

I previously discussed the issue of government failure in this post in more general terms. Today a more specific example of this could be seen. While the Nobel prices are financed by the estate of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, the peace price is (for complex historical reasons) decided upon by a committee of Norwegian politicians appointed by the Norwegian parliament. Given the fact that Norway's parliament has a slight left-wing majority (despite a majority in the popular vote for the centre-right) this means that a bunch of Norwegian leftists gets to decide who gets the peace price.

So whom do they give the peace price to? To someone waging war without any credible plan on how to end it. And that someone hasn't contributed peace anywhere in the world, or stopped the spread of nuclear weapons to countries like Iran and North Korea-or has any credible plan on how to achieve either. It is not just a case of not having achieved anything, it is a case of not having achieved anything nor knowing how to achieve it

In short-he has achieved nothing positive at all. Yet the Norwegian government agency deciding on the price because he has in his teleprompter based speeches said that he generally thinks "diplomacy" and "nuclear disarmament" are good things. For that "achievement", they could have picked any random beauty queen....