The Nobel factor : The prize in economics, social democracy, and the market turn

By:

Offer Avner

Contributor(s):

Soderberg Babriel

Publication details: Princeton Princeton University Press 2016Description: 323p xvISBN:

9780691166032

Subject(s):

1. Nobel Prizes - Socialism 2. Scandinavia - Economic History 3. Economic Policy

DDC classification:

330.079000 OFF

Contents:

Table of contents List of Figures and Table viii List of Abbreviations xi List of Nobel Prize Winners in Economics, 1969-2015 xiii Preface and Acknowledgments xv Introduction 1 1 Imaginary Machines 16 2 A Prize in 'Economic Sciences' 42 3 Bitter Roots: Finance and Social Democracy between the Wars 68 4 The Riksbank Endows a Nobel Prize 89 5 Does Economics Have a Political Bias? 107 6 Individual Reputations (with Samuel Bjork) 125 7 Nobel Economics and Social Democracy 149 8 Models into Policy: Assar Lindbeck and Swedish Social Democracy 174 9 Swedosclerosis or Pseudosclerosis? Sweden in the 1980s 198 10 The Real Crisis: Not Work Incentives but Runaway Credit 220 11 Beyond Scandinavia: Washington Consensus to Market Corruption 230 Conclusion: Like Physics or Like Literature? 259 Bibliography 279 Index 309

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Table of contents
List of Figures and Table viii List of Abbreviations xi List of Nobel Prize Winners in Economics, 1969-2015 xiii Preface and Acknowledgments xv Introduction 1 1 Imaginary Machines 16 2 A Prize in 'Economic Sciences' 42 3 Bitter Roots: Finance and Social Democracy between the Wars 68 4 The Riksbank Endows a Nobel Prize 89 5 Does Economics Have a Political Bias? 107 6 Individual Reputations (with Samuel Bjork) 125 7 Nobel Economics and Social Democracy 149 8 Models into Policy: Assar Lindbeck and Swedish Social Democracy 174 9 Swedosclerosis or Pseudosclerosis? Sweden in the 1980s 198 10 The Real Crisis: Not Work Incentives but Runaway Credit 220 11 Beyond Scandinavia: Washington Consensus to Market Corruption 230 Conclusion: Like Physics or Like Literature? 259 Bibliography 279 Index 309

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