A Nobel selection committee member admitted MPS overrepresentation in the prize
Evidence
Before we deal with the actual sequence of prizes and vexed questions of ideological definition, it is critical to note just how unlikely it would have been that any exclusive club consisting of roughly 300 or so members worldwide during the period under consideration would manage to capture such an outsized proportion of Bank of Sweden Prizes. Conveniently, we have one of the members of the selection committee himself admitting the very same thing in, of all things, an address to the MPS: “There seems to be an overrepresentation in the Nobel Prize Hall of Fame of the MPS group. [Milton] Friedman indicates some kind of political bias against an outspoken Marxist economist when it comes to not awarding the prize. But is there a corresponding positive bias in favour of the other camp?” Furthermore, the neoliberal thought collective has not been shy in trumpeting this extraordinary set of events. — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 498
Categorization
- XREF: Directly complements the Milgrom-Roberts material on institutions substituting for markets — here the MPS functions as an institutional network capturing prestige prizes. — connects to: Nobel laureates did not constitute a uniquely best population in science — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 457; Nobel Prizes reflect disciplinary politics and local context, not pure scientific merit — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 480; Neoliberals held about 38-40 percent of economics Nobel prizes since 1993 — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 494 (+1 more)
Broader Connections
- Neoliberals held about 38-40 percent of economics Nobel prizes since 1993
#expands(0.80) — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 494 - Nobel Prizes reflect disciplinary politics and local context, not pure scientific merit
#expands(0.78) — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 480 - The Nobel prize shaped American economics despite official denials
#corroborates(0.72) — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 526