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

["Rosser Jr, John Barkley" <rosserjb@xxxxxxx>]

    It fits, but not the creation of the prize per se.  The
prize was created in 1969 (or at least that was when the
first one was given out).  In the early years it was handed
out to a broader array of people.  That was when the
selection committee was dominated by Gunnar Myrdal, an old
school Swedish economist.  It was also viewed that this
period saw some "mistakes," most notoriously the failure to
include George Dantzig in the linear programming prize (a
source of much anger to many mathematicians to this day,
although Doug thinks that mathematics is useless for
economics).  It was the takeover of the committee by Assar
Lindbeck that it changed its tune.  Lindbeck has long been
a critic of the traditional Swedish economic model and
wanted support for his critique from the US.
Barkley Rosser
On Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:43:23 -0400 Doug Henwood
<dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx> 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
>
>

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Rosser Jr, John Barkley
rosserjb@xxxxxxx