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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Offer, Avner (Author)
Group Author: Söderberg, Gabriel, 1978-
Published: Princeton University Press,
Publisher Address: Princeton, New Jersey :
Publication Dates: [2016]
Literature type: Book
Language: English
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Carrier Form: xvii, 323 pages : illustrations, form ; 25 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages [279]-308) and index.
ISBN: 9780691166032 (hardback : alkaline paper) :
069116603X (hardback : alkaline paper)
Index Number: HC54
CLC: F119
Call Number: F119/O322
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?