The Nobel factor : the prize in economics, social democracy, and the market turn /
Offer, Avner,author.
Söderberg, Gabriel,1978-author.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface and acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Imaginary machines -- 2. A prize in 'economic sciences' -- 3. Bitter roots: finance and social democracy between the wars -- 4. The Riksbank endows a Nobel prize -- 5. Does economics have a political bias? -- 6. Individual reputations (with Samuel Bjork) -- 7. Nobel economics and social democracy -- 8. Models into policy : Assar Lindbeck and Swedish social democracy -- 9. Swedosclerosis or pseudosclerosis? Sweden in the 1980s -- 10. The real crisis: not work incentives but runaway credit -- 11. Beyond Scandinavia: Washington consensus to market corruption -- Conclusion : like physics or like literature?
Economic history.
Socialism
Economic policy.
Nobel Prizes