After the prize was announced, there were all sorts of criticisms of the aberrant behavior of the Bank of Sweden committee; they were forced to defend their choice over and over again. Indeed, the Hayek/Myrdal pairing remained the most controversial award until the 1994 prize bestowed upon John Nash, which caused such a hubbub that the prize committee was itself reconstituted by the Royal Swedish Academy.

Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, loc. 518