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Aren't professors certified (with PhDs) by the same institutions which certify students?

Although I think my question was stupid for other reasons. Might a better means of funding knowledge be solely with prizes? Institutions of certification would arise from that sort of arrangement. Of course there would still be the problem of what prizes to pick, but I think that problem is more self-evident than the problem of who to fund, and how much.

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I'd be interested to hear of a counter-example of a field where hard to evaluate conceptual work is over-weighted.

Maybe the "other" complexity theory (i.e., the kind Wolfram does)?

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