In 1994, Assar Lindbeck—regarded as Sweden’s most important economist—is the chairman of the committee for the Nobel Prize in Economics. Though Lindbeck is at first skeptical about John Nash’s merits as a candidate for Nobel Prize (after Jorgen Weibull puts forward Nash’s name), Lindbeck later suggests a three-way prize for achievements in game theory for Nash, John Harsanyi, and Reinhard Selten. He defends Nash against Ingemar Stahl’s objections, believing that the Nobel Prize would help “lift [Nash] into daylight,” relieving some of the suffering he had faced because of his mental illness.