📈 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences Chronological History Timeline

Chronological Timeline (74 Entries)

1. [1895] Ragnar Frisch — Pioneering Norwegian economist who established econometrics and modern economic modeling.
2. [1898] Gunnar Myrdal — Pioneering Swedish economist and sociologist, known for welfare state theory and race relations studies.
3. [1899] Bertil Ohlin — Pioneering Swedish economist, Nobel Laureate, and politician.
4. [1901] Simon Kuznets — Pioneering economist known for GDP and theories of economic development.
5. [1902] Theodore Schultz — Pioneering economist known for Human Capital Theory and Nobel laureate.
6. [1903] Jan Tinbergen — Pioneering Dutch economist and Nobel Laureate, a father of modern econometrics.
7. [1904] John Hicks — Influential British economist known for IS-LM model and general equilibrium theory.
8. [1906] Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen — Pioneering economist known for applying thermodynamics to resource depletion and ecology.
9. [1906] Wassily Leontief — Pioneering economist known for input-output analysis and Nobel laureate.
10. [1910] Ronald Coase — Influential British economist known for transaction costs and property rights theory.
11. [1911] George Stigler — Pioneering American economist and Nobel laureate, key figure of the Chicago School.
12. [1911] Maurice Allais — Pioneering French economist and physicist, Nobel laureate for market theory.
13. [1911] Trygve Haavelmo — Pioneering Norwegian econometrician and Nobel laureate.
14. [1912] Leonid Kantorovich — Pioneering mathematician and economist, founder of linear programming theory.
15. [1912] Milton Friedman — Pioneering economist known for monetarism and challenging Keynesian theory.
16. [1913] Richard Stone — Eminent British economist and Nobel Laureate recognized for national accounting models.
17. [1914] William Vickrey — Pioneering economist known for public policy theory and mechanism design.
18. [1915] Paul Samuelson — Pioneering American economist and Nobel laureate who shaped modern economic theory.
19. [1915] W. Arthur Lewis — Pioneering development economist known for the dual-sector model and Nobel laureate.
20. [1916] Herbert A. Simon — Pioneering scholar in AI, economics, and cognitive science, known for bounded rationality.
21. [1917] Leonid Hurwicz — Pioneering mathematician and economist known for game theory and mechanism design.
22. [1918] James Tobin — American economist, Nobel Laureate known for Keynesian ideas and the 'Tobin tax'
23. [1919] James M. Buchanan — Pioneering Public Choice Theory, Nobel Laureate in Economics.
24. [1920] Douglass North — Pioneering economist known for New Institutional Economics and Nobel laureate.
25. [1920] John Harsanyi — Pioneering economist known for Bayesian game theory and Nobel laureate.
26. [1920] Lawrence Klein — Pioneering econometrician known for modeling economic cycles and policy.
27. [1921] Gérard Debreu — Pioneering economist and mathematician, renowned for work on linear programming and mathematical economics.
28. [1921] Kenneth Arrow — Pioneering economist known for social choice theory and general equilibrium analysis.
29. [1921] Thomas Schelling — Pioneering economist known for applying game theory to conflict and cooperation.
30. [1923] Lloyd Shapley — Pioneering mathematician and Nobel laureate in game theory and economics.
31. [1923] Merton Miller — American economist and Nobel Laureate known for the Modigliani–Miller theorem.
32. [1924] Robert Solow — Pioneering economist known for the Solow-Swan model of economic growth.
33. [1926] Robert Fogel — Pioneering economic historian and advocate of quantitative methods (cliometrics).
34. [1927] Harry Markowitz — Pioneered Modern Portfolio Theory, revolutionizing finance and investment risk assessment.
35. [1927] Vernon L. Smith — American economist and Nobel laureate known for behavioral and experimental economics.
36. [1928] John Forbes Nash Jr. — Pioneering mathematician known for game theory and differential geometry.
37. [1930] Gary Becker — Pioneering economist known for applying rational choice theory to diverse human behaviors.
38. [1930] Robert Aumann — Pioneering mathematician known for game theory, winning the 2005 Nobel Prize.
39. [1932] Oliver E. Williamson — Pioneering economist known for Transaction Cost Economics and the theory of the firm.
40. [1932] Robert Mundell — Influential Canadian economist, Nobel Laureate, and pioneer of optimum currency areas.
41. [1933] Edmund Phelps — Nobel laureate economist known for the natural rate of unemployment and growth theory.
42. [1933] Elinor Ostrom — Pioneering scholar of common-pool resource governance and institutional economics.
43. [1934] Daniel Kahneman — Pioneering psychologist and economist known for behavioral economics and judgment.
44. [1934] William F. Sharpe — Pioneering economist known for CAPM and the Sharpe Ratio.
45. [1936] James Mirrlees — British Nobel Laureate economist known for contributions to welfare and information theory.
46. [1937] Daniel McFadden — Pioneering econometrician known for discrete choice analysis and Nobel laureate.
47. [1937] Robert Lucas Jr. — Pioneering macroeconomist known for rational expectations and the new classical approach.
48. [1939] Dale T. Mortensen — Influential American economist known for labor markets and Nobel Prize in 2010.
49. [1939] Eugene Fama — Pioneering economist known for the Efficient Market Hypothesis and modern finance theory.
50. [1940] George Akerlof — Influential American economist known for work on asymmetric information and labor markets.
51. [1940] Peter Diamond — Economist renowned for Social Security analysis and Nobel laureate.
52. [1941] Myron Scholes — Pioneering financial economist, co-creator of the revolutionary Black-Scholes options pricing model.
53. [1941] William Nordhaus — Economist renowned for integrating climate change into macroeconomic models.
54. [1943] Michael Spence — Nobel laureate economist known for the job-market signaling model.
55. [1944] James Heckman — Pioneering economist known for selection bias correction and human capital research.
56. [1944] Robert C. Merton — Economist renowned for continuous-time finance and the Black-Scholes-Merton model.
57. [1945] Angus Deaton — Influential economist specializing in poverty, inequality, and consumption analysis.
58. [1945] Richard Thaler — Pioneering behavioral economics, Richard Thaler redefined decision-making theory.
59. [1946] Robert J. Shiller — Influential American economist known for housing bubbles and market cycles.
60. [1948] Christopher A. Pissarides — British-Cypriot economist renowned for research on labor markets and economic growth.
61. [1948] Oliver Hart (economist) — Influential British-American economist, celebrated for his work on institutional economics.
62. [1949] Bengt Holmström — Finnish economist and Nobel laureate recognized for contributions to economic science.
63. [1950] Eric Maskin — American Nobel laureate economist and mathematician known for mechanism design theory.
64. [1951] Alvin E. Roth — Pioneering economist known for game theory and market design solutions.
65. [1951] Roger Myerson — Distinguished American economist known for mechanism design theory and Nobel laureate.
66. [1953] Ben Bernanke — Renowned economist, former Fed Chair, and Nobel laureate specializing in financial crises.
67. [1953] Jean Tirole — Influential French economist specializing in industrial organization and game theory.
68. [1953] Paul Krugman — Influential American economist known for trade theory and Keynesian views.
69. [1955] Nobuhiro Kiyotaki — Influential Japanese economist known for microfoundations in macroeconomics.
70. [1955] Paul Romer — Economist known for endogenous growth theory and Nobel Prize work.
71. [1961] Abhijit Banerjee — Pioneering economist known for using scientific evidence to combat global poverty.
72. [1964] Michael Kremer — American development economist and Nobel laureate known for poverty alleviation research.
73. [1967] Daron Acemoglu — Turkish-American economist specializing in political economy and institutions.
74. [1972] Esther Duflo — Economist renowned for experimental approaches to alleviating global poverty.