The Nobel factor
Subtitle: the prize in economics, social democracy, and the market turn
By: Avner Offer, Gabriel Söderberg
Contributors: Söderberg, Gabriel, 1978- author
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 323
ISBN-13: 9780691166032
Subjects: Economic policy; Nobel Prizes; Economic history; Socialism; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Imaginary machines; title: 2. A prize in 'economic sciences'; title: 3. Bitter roots: finance and social democracy between the wars; title: 4. The Riksbank endows a nobel prize; title: 5. Does economics have a political bias?; title: 6. Individual reputations (with Samuel Bjork); title: 7. Nobel economics and social democracy; title: 8. Models into policy : Assar Lindbeck and Swedish social democracy; title: 9. Swedosclerosis or pseudosclerosis? Sweden in the 1980s; title: 10. The real crisis: not work incentives but runaway credit; title: 11. Beyond Scandinavia : Washington consensus to market corruption; title: Conclusion : like physics or like literature?