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

"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, seek...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Authors: Offer, Avner (Author), Söderberg, Gabriel, 1978- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2016]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; 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.