The Swedish economics prize deliberately privileged American neoclassicism and MPS neoliberalism over other schools.

Evidence

As we have argued, due to their own geopolitical and intellectual imperatives, the Swedish committee had decided to privilege the nouvelle vague américaine as the future of economics. This became practically apparent by the later 1970s, as did the principle that no other schools of thought than an American neoclassicism or an MPS neoliberalism would ever be graced with a call from Stockholm. — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 533

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the broader reader’s project on fracturing the caricature of neoliberalism — this shows the prize’s role in institutionally encoding the MPS school as the hegemonic one. — connects to: Neoliberals exploited the Bank of Sweden prize to gain professorial standing — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 536; The economics prize consciously moved the profession in a neoliberal direction — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 484; The economics prize displaced Europe’s indigenous economic schools with American orthodoxy — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 483 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• The economics prize consciously moved the profession in a neoliberal direction #expands (0.90) — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 484
• Neoliberals exploited the Bank of Sweden prize to gain professorial standing #expands (0.85) — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 536
• The economics prize displaced Europe’s indigenous economic schools with American orthodoxy #corroborates (0.80) — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 483
• Neoliberals themselves devised ideological scorekeeping of Nobel economics winners #expands (0.75) — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 510
• Nobel economics prizes to neoliberals resulted from contingency plus deliberate agenda #qualifies (0.75) — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 499