The Nobel Factor: The Prize in Economics, Social Democracy, and the Market Turn
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The Nobel Factor: The Prize in Economics, Social Democracy, and the Market Turn
By (Author) Avner Offer
By (author) Gabriel Sderberg
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
27th January 2020
United States
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Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Central / national / federal government policies
European history
330.079
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Paperback
344
Width 156mm, Height 235mm
Description
How the creation of the Nobel Prize in Economics changed the economics profession, Sweden, and the world Our confidence in markets comes from economics, and our confidence in economics is underpinned by the Nobel Prize in Economics, which was first awarded in 1969. Was it a coincidence that the prize and the rise of free-market liberalism began
Reviews
"Selected for Bloomberg Views The Writing that Shaped Economic Thinking in 2016"
"Selected for Canadas Financial Post Best Personal Finance and Economics Books of 2016"
Author Bio
Avner Offer is Chichele Professor Emeritus of Economic History at the University of Oxford and a fellow of All Souls College and the British Academy. Gabriel Sderberg is a researcher in the Department of Economic History at Uppsala University in Sweden.
