Media fail of the day: We congratulate 'and wife' for her Nobel Prize in Economics

LOL.

The Economic Times didn’t name Esther Duflo, co-winner of this year’s Nobel in Economics, in its headline and instead just referred to her as the “wife” of MIT Professor Abhijit Banerjee:

Oh COME ON @EconomicTimes! pic.twitter.com/AYPYQgEmrL

— Rohini Mohan (@rohini_mohan) October 14, 2019

Yes. Yes they did:

They "and wifed" a NOBEL PRIZE WINNER

— (((Rachel Sklar))) ❄️ (@rachelsklar) October 14, 2019

Duflo’s win is pretty impressive in its own right:

2019 Economic Sciences Laureate Esther Duflo, born in 1972, is the second woman and the youngest person to be awarded the Prize in Economic Sciences.#NobelFacts #NobelPrize pic.twitter.com/0Ek8E7kLRh

— The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) October 14, 2019

And let’s not forget the other guy who won, too:

MIT’s Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo have won the @NobelPrize in #economics, “for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty.” Congratulations! They share the prize with Michael Kremer of Harvard. pic.twitter.com/cYx4ePMrTN

— Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (@MIT) October 14, 2019

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