Preface and acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Imaginary machines
2. A prize in 'economic sciences'
3. Bitter roots: finance and social democracy between the wars
4. The Riksbank endows a nobel prize
5. Does economics have a political bias?
6. Individual reputations (with Samuel Bjork)
7. Nobel economics and social democracy
8. Models into policy : Assar Lindbeck and swedish social democracy
9. Swedosclerosis or pseudosclerosis? Sweden in the 1980s
10. The real crisis: not work incentives but runaway credit
11. Beyond Scandinavia : Washington consensus to market corruption
Conclusion : like physics or like literature?