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, loc. 533