The Nobel Factor : : The Prize in Economics, Social Democracy, and the Market Turn /

The Nobel Factor : : The Prize in Economics, Social Democracy, and the Market Turn / / Avner Offer, Gabriel Söderberg.

Economic theory may be speculative, but its impact is powerful and real. Since the 1970s, it has been closely associated with a sweeping change around the world-the "market turn." This is what Avner Offer and Gabriel Söderberg call the rise of market liberalism, a movement that, seeking to...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
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Offer, Avner,
Söderberg, Gabriel,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2016]
©2017
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (344 p.) :; 2 halftones. 29 line illus. 1 table.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Figures and Table
  • List of Abbreviations
  • List of Nobel Prize Winners in Economics, 1969- 2015
  • 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?
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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