PEOPLE KNOWN FOR: Nobel Prize - Economics
American economist
Richard Thaler is an American economist who was awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize for Economics for his contributions to behavioral economics, a field of microeconomics that applies the findings of psychology...
American economist
Paul Milgrom is an American economist who, with Robert Wilson, was awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize for Economics (the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel) for his contributions...
Dutch-American economist
Guido Imbens is a Dutch-American economist who, with the Israeli-American economist Joshua Angrist, was awarded one-half of the 2021 Nobel Prize for Economics (the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences...
American economist
Robert B. Wilson is an American economist who, with Paul Milgrom, was awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize for Economics (the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel) for his contributions...
Israeli-American economist
Joshua Angrist is an Israeli-American economist who, with the Dutch-American economist Guido Imbens, was awarded one-half of the 2021 Nobel Prize for Economics (the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic...
American economist and game theorist
Thomas C. Schelling was an American economist who shared the 2005 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences with Robert J. Aumann. Schelling specialized in the application of game theory to cases in which adversaries...
Finnish economist
Bengt Holmström is a Finnish economist who, with Oliver Hart, was awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize for Economics for his contributions to contract theory. Starting in the late 1970s, Holmström and various...
Canadian economist
Robert A. Mundell was a Canadian-born economist who in 1999 received the Nobel Prize for Economics for his work on monetary dynamics and optimum currency areas. Mundell attended the University of British...
American economist
Peter A. Diamond is an American economist who was a corecipient, with Dale T. Mortensen and Christopher A. Pissarides, of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences “for their analysis of markets with search...
American economist
Edward C. Prescott was an American economist who, with Finn E. Kydland, won the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 2004 for contributions to two areas of dynamic macroeconomics: the time consistency of...
Swedish economist
Bertil Ohlin was a Swedish economist and political leader who is known as the founder of the modern theory of the dynamics of trade. In 1977 he shared the Nobel Prize for Economics with James Meade. Ohlin...
American economist
Robert E. Lucas, Jr. was an American economist who won the 1995 Nobel Prize for Economics for developing and applying the theory of rational expectations, an econometric hypothesis. Lucas found that individuals...
American economist
James J. Heckman is an American economist, educator, and winner (with Daniel McFadden) of the 2000 Nobel Prize for Economics for his development of theory and methods used in the analysis of individual...
American economist
Kenneth J. Arrow was an American economist known for his contributions to welfare economics and to general economic equilibrium theory. He was cowinner (with Sir John R. Hicks) of the Nobel Prize for Economics...
American economist
Robert F. Engle is an American economist, corecipient of the Nobel Prize for Economics in 2003 for his development of methods for analyzing time series data with time-varying volatility. He shared the...
American economist
Theodore William Schultz was an American agricultural economist whose influential studies of the role of “human capital”—education, talent, energy, and will—in economic development won him a share (with...
British-American economist
Ronald Coase was a British-born American economist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1991. The field known as new institutional economics, which attempts to explain political, legal, and...
Norwegian economist
Finn E. Kydland is a Norwegian economist, who, with Edward C. Prescott, won the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 2004 for contributions to dynamic macroeconomics, notably the time consistency of economic...
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