The 1974 Hayek-Myrdal Nobel pairing was the most controversial award until 1994.

Evidence

After the prize was announced, there were all sorts of criticisms of the aberrant behavior of the Bank of Sweden committee; they were forced to defend their choice over and over again. Indeed, the Hayek/Myrdal pairing remained the most controversial award until the 1994 prize bestowed upon John Nash, which caused such a hubbub that the prize committee was itself reconstituted by the Royal Swedish Academy. — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 518

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Myrdal regretted accepting the 1974 Nobel and declared the economics prize a political act. — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 521