"...on 23 March 1961, in Stockholm, the King of Sweden, Gustav-Adolph, presented [Sraffa] with the Söderstrom gold medal of the Royal Academy of Sciences. This honorary distinction, which antedated the Nobel Prize for Economics, was also awarded to John Maynard Keynes and Gunnar Myrdal." -- Jean-Pierre Potier (Piero Sraffa: Unorthodox Economist (1898-1983), Routledge, 1991)On the other hand, I don't expect the real fake Nobel to be awarded anytime soon for work in the history of economics.
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Interestingly, the WWW, Source Of All Information, does not appear to offer a list of Soderstrom medal winners.
Going by the index, I don't think Skidelsky mentions it in his biography of Keynes. And yet - the King of Sweden! - it sounds like it must be impressive. I welcome more information.
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