Re: Sweden -- A few reactions on the N.Y. Times article

[Mathew Forstater <forstate@xxxxxxxx>]

One correlation--if not causality--that has been observed is the relation
between increasing conservativeness of the Nobel Memorial recipients and the
decline of the Swedish economy.

Mat

Doug Henwood wrote:

> Per Gunnar Berglund wrote:
>
> >In my view, the root of the Swedish social, political and economic
> >catastrophy
> >is what I would like to call an intellectual coup d'etat that took place
> >in the years
> >1979-82.
>
> Do you, or does anyone else, know how the creation of the Nobel Prize in
> Economics and its systematic bestowal on the entire Chicago faculty fits
> into the coup d'etat?
>
> Doug