Nobel Laureates
(Click on laureate names for biographies)
|
Year |
Winner |
Achievement |
2008 |
Paul Krugman |
"for his analysis of trade patterns and location of economic activity" |
2008 |
Leonid Hurwicz,
Eric S. Maskin, and
Roger B. Myerson |
"for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory" |
2006 |
Edmund S. Phelps |
"for his analysis of intertemporal tradeoffs in macroeconomic policy"
|
2005 |
Robert J. Aumann and
Thomas C. Schelling |
"for having enhanced our understanding of conflict and cooperation through
game-theory analysis" |
2004 |
Finn E. Kydland and
Edward C. Prescott |
"for their contributions to dynamic macroeconomics: the time consistency
of economic policy and the driving forces behind business cycles" |
2003 |
Robert F. Engle III |
"for methods of analyzing economic time series with time-varying volatility
(ARCH)" |
2003 |
Clive W.J. Granger |
"for methods of analyzing economic time series with common trends (cointegration)"
|
2002 |
Daniel Kahneman |
"for having integrated insights from psychological research into economic
science, especially concerning human judgment and decision-making under uncertainty"
|
2002 |
Vernon L. Smith |
"for having established laboratory experiments as a tool in empirical economic
analysis, especially in the study of alternative market mechanisms" |
2001 |
George A. Akerlof,
A. Michael Spence, and
Joseph E. Stiglitz |
"for their analyses of markets with asymmetric information" |
2000 |
James J. Heckman |
"for his development of theory and methods for analyzing selective samples" |
2000 |
Daniel L. McFadden |
"for his development of theory and methods for analyzing discrete choice" |
1999 |
Robert A. Mundell |
"for his analysis of monetary and fiscal policy under different exchange
rate regimes and his analysis of optimum currency areas" |
1998 |
Amartya Sen |
"for his contributions to welfare economics" |
1997 |
Robert C. Merton and
Myron S. Scholes |
"for a new method to determine the value of derivatives" |
1996 |
James A. Mirrlees and
William Vickrey |
"for their fundamental contributions to the economic theory of incentives
under asymmetric information" |
1995 |
Robert E. Lucas Jr. |
"for having developed and applied the hypothesis of rational expectations,
and thereby having transformed macroeconomic analysis and deepened our understanding
of economic policy" |
1994 |
John C. Harsanyi,
John F. Nash Jr., and
Reinhard Selten |
"for their pioneering analysis of equilibria in the theory of non-cooperative
games" |
1993 |
Robert W. Fogel and
Douglass C. North |
"for having renewed research in economic history by applying economic theory
and quantitative methods in order to explain economic and institutional change" |
1992 |
Gary S. Becker |
"for having extended the domain of microeconomic analysis to a wide range
of human behaviour and interaction, including nonmarket behaviour" |
1991 |
Ronald H. Coase |
"for his discovery and clarification of the significance of transaction
costs and property rights for the institutional structure and functioning of the
economy" |
1990 |
Harry M. Markowitz,
Merton H. Miller, and
William F. Sharpe |
"for their pioneering work in the theory of financial economics" |
1989 |
Trygve Haavelmo |
"for his clarification of the probability theory foundations of econometrics
and his analyses of simultaneous economic structures" |
1988 |
Maurice Allais |
"for his pioneering contributions to the theory of markets and efficient
utilization of resources" |
1987 |
Robert M. Solow |
"for his contributions to the theory of economic growth" |
1986 |
James M. Buchanan Jr. |
"for his development of the contractual and constitutional bases for the
theory of economic and political decision-making" |
1985 |
Franco Modigliani |
"for his pioneering analyses of saving and of financial markets" |
1984 |
Richard Stone |
"for having made fundamental contributions to the development of systems
of national accounts and hence greatly improved the basis for empirical economic
analysis" |
1983 |
Gerard Debreu |
"for having incorporated new analytical methods into economic theory and
for his rigorous reformulation of the theory of general equilibrium" |
1982 |
George J. Stigler |
"for his seminal studies of industrial structures, functioning of markets
and causes and effects of public regulation" |
1981 |
James Tobin |
"for his analysis of financial markets and their relations to expenditure
decisions, employment, production and prices" |
1980 |
Lawrence R. Klein |
"for the creation of econometric models and the application to the analysis
of economic fluctuations and economic policies" |
1980 |
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1979 |
Theodore W. Schultz and
Sir Arthur Lewis |
"for their pioneering research into economic development research with
particular consideration of the problems of developing countries" |
1978 |
Herbert A. Simon |
"for his pioneering research into the decision-making process within economic
organizations" |
1977 |
Bertil Ohlin and
James E. Meade |
"for their pathbreaking contribution to the theory of international trade
and international capital movements" |
1976 |
Milton Friedman |
"for his achievements in the fields of consumption analysis, monetary history
and theory and for his demonstration of the complexity of stabilization policy" |
1975 |
Leonid Vitaliyevich Kantorovich and
Tjalling C. Koopmans |
"for their contributions to the theory of optimum allocation of resources" |
1974 |
Gunnar Myrdal and
Friedrich August von Hayek |
"for their pioneering work in the theory of money and economic fluctuations
and for their penetrating analysis of the interdependence of economic, social and
institutional phenomena" |
1973 |
Wassily Leontief |
"for the development of the input-output method and for its application
to important economic problems" |
1972 |
John R. Hicks and
Kenneth J. Arrow |
"for their pioneering contributions to general economic equilibrium theory
and welfare theory" |
1971 |
Simon Kuznets |
"for his empirically founded interpretation of economic growth which has
led to new and deepened insight into the economic and social structure and process
of development" |
1970 |
Paul A. Samuelson |
"for the scientific work through which he has developed static and dynamic
economic theory and actively contributed to raising the level of analysis in economic
science" |
1969 |
Ragnar Frisch and
Jan Tinbergen |
"for having developed and applied dynamic models for the analysis of economic
processes" |