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Author:

Offer, Avner, author.

Title:

The Nobel factor : the prize in economics, social democracy, and the market turn / Avner Offer, Gabriel So˜derberg.

Publisher:

Princeton University Press,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

xvii, 323 pages ; 25 cm

Subject:

Economic history.
Socialism--Scandinavia--History.
Economic policy.
Nobel Prizes--History.

Other Authors:

So˜derberg, Gabriel, 1978- author.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

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?

ISBN:

069116603X
9780691166032

OCLC:

(OCoLC)944469286

LCCN:

2016003438

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)