List of Nobel Prize Winners in Economics, 1969– 2015

Chapters in this book

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