The economics prize consciously moved the profession in a neoliberal direction

Evidence

It is the second, far less visible, trend that will take up the rest of this chapter. It is not at all clear that, initially, the Bank of Sweden consciously sought to elevate the American orthodoxy to primus inter pares as a major consequence of its ersatz prize; but a case can be made that they did seek to skew the prize, and therefore the economics profession, in a far more neoliberal direction than would have been expected in the late 1960s. Thus, the prize provided a fulcrum which permanently moved the Overton Window. — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 484

Categorization

• QUESTION: The claim that the Bank of Sweden deliberately skewed the prize toward neoliberalism is contested and bears tracing further into the chapter.
• XREF: connects to: The economics profession’s failed self-reform serves the neoliberal project by generating noise — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 835; The economics Nobel committee was majority-staffed by neoliberal economists during its first six years. — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 491; Nobel economics prizes to neoliberals resulted from contingency plus deliberate agenda — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 499 (+10 more)

Broader Connections

• The economics profession and the Neoliberal Thought Collective symbiotically keep the financial system unaltered #corroborates (0.82) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 674
• Neoliberal governance reshapes scholarship to serve economic usefulness #corroborates (0.78) — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 626
• Neoliberalism triumphed through fringe think tanks, not academic economics #complicates (0.72) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 377