Nobel Factor The Prize in Economics, Social Democracy, and the Market Turn
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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. His books include The Challenge of Affluence. Gabriel Soderberg is a researcher in the Department of Economic History at Uppsala University in Sweden.Selected for Canada's Financial Post Best Personal Finance and Economics Books of 2016 Selected for Bloomberg View's "The Writing that Shaped Economic Thinking in 2016" "Fascinating."--Justin Fox, Bloomberg View "As intellectual, social, and political history, The Nobel Factor is well worth your time getting stuck into."--Stephen Kinsella, Irish Economy "This book is hugely persuasive about economics, where the knowledge displayed is extraordinary and the judgments highly persuasive."--Jim Tomlinson, Long Run, EHS blog "There is much to be commended in The Nobel Factor. The close attention to the history of the Prize in Economics, the careful collection--and correlation--of data on the winners with broader intellectual and political trends makes the book a valuable guide."--Siddharth Singh, Open Magazine "Authors Avner Offer and Gabriel Soderberg ... trace the powerful effects of the [Nobel] prize."--Andrew Allentuck, Financial Post "Through thorough research of the publicly available archives and interviews with participants in the award process, the authors show both ideological and scientific criteria have operated, and, while science ended up lending a hand to ideology, it also sowed the seeds for dissent; scientific criteria drove the prize committee 'into a refutation of scientific economics.'"--Choice "Offer and Soderberg's story of the origins, recipients and impact of the Nobel Prize in Economics is intellectual history at its best... The failure of neoliberal economics to predict devastating debt crises and stem destabilising poverty suggests that economics is due for a return to the workbench. This book makes an important contribution to such a rethink."--E. Stina Lyon, Times Higher Education "Well-informed, trenchant."--Foreign Affairs "An important book. It will prove fascinating for all economics junkies, plus those interested in any and all Nobel Prizes."--Walter Block, San Francisco Book Review "[An] excellent book."--Peter Radford, Real-World Economics Review blog
"I love this book. It's beautifully written, but more importantly, it manages to combine a sociology of the Nobel Prize in Economics with a genealogy of market liberalism and a history of Sweden's struggle over social democracy. This is difficult enough to imagine, let alone make work, and the authors should be applauded for doing so."—Mark Blyth, author of Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea
"At last, two scholars, profoundly versed in the theory, evidence, and history of contemporary economics, puncture the mythology that is the foundation of free-market neoclassical economics. Economics is not science but one policy voice among many others. As Offer and Söderberg document, the pretense of an objective, scientifically based Nobel Prize in Economics has been an artifice of neoliberal propaganda for decades, doing deliberate damage to social democracy. They give a hearing to all sides, and in the end say it like it is. The influence of economics matters a lot and too much of it is sheer theory without evidence."—Jeff Madrick, author of Seven Bad Ideas: How Mainstream Economists Have Damaged America and the World
"The Nobel Factor is a tour de force account of how the discipline of economics has developed since the 1960s. Using the Nobel Prize in Economics as their prism, Offer and Söderberg present a refreshingly unapologetic, deeply critical analysis of the ideological turn to market fundamentalism that was propelled by the selection of prizewinners. The authors' analysis of the policy implications makes one question whether economics, as it is generally taught, promotes a healthy economy."—Bo Rothstein, University of Oxford
"The Nobel Factor is a fascinating book. It argues that the Nobel Prize in Economics played a role in the transition from social democracy to market liberalism, in both Sweden and the wider world. This is a new idea that should be of wide interest."—Roger E. Backhouse, author of The Puzzle of Modern Economics: Science or Ideology?