Regarding your editorial "A Main Street Rescue" (Sept. 29) and other recent economic coverage: It is surprising that no one has commented on the fact that this country has been cornering the lion's share of the annual awards of the Nobel Prize in economics since its inception but that this country has now become the origin and epicenter of the most serious global economic meltdown since the Great Depression.

Is there a case here for the concerned Noble Prize award committee to seriously consider abolition of the prize for economics altogether?