So far we have approached the ersatz Nobel almost exclusively from the vantage point of the Swedes, but another way to gauge the significance and influence of the prize is to briefly examine its consequences from the side of its main beneficiaries, viz., the American economics orthodoxy. Lindbeck’s disavowal that the prize did not affect the subsequent direction of research can be directly refuted by looking at what happened to other economist prizes in the American context.

Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, loc. 526