Showing posts with label Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics. Show all posts

Thursday, May 8, 2014

Philip Mirowski on Why is there a Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics?

Philip Mirowski speaks on the history of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics, which was never a genuine and original Nobel Prize, but was set up by the central bank of Sweden in 1968. The role of this prize and institution in the rise of neoclassical economics in Western Europe is a forgotten part of history.