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Economics

This is the prize awarded to the person who has during the previous year has excelled in the field of economic sciences. This was implemented in 1968 and sponsored by a Swedish bank (Sveriges Riksbank), in memory of Alfred Nobel.

Previous Winners

2002 Daniel Kahneman, Vernon L. Smith

2001 George A. Akerlof, A. Michael Spence, Joseph E. Stiglitz

2000 James J. Heckman, Daniel L. McFadden

1999 Robert A. Mundell

1998 Amartya Sen

1997 Robert C. Merton, Myron S. Scholes

1996 James A. Mirrlees, William Vickrey

1995 Robert E. Lucas Jr.

1994 John C. Harsanyi, John F. Nash Jr., Reinhard Selten

1993 Robert W. Fogel, Douglass C. North

1992 Gary S. Becker

1991 Ronald H. Coase

1990 Harry M. Markowitz, Merton H. Miller, William F. Sharpe

1989 Trygve Haavelmo

1988 Maurice Allais

1987 Robert M. Solow

1986 James M. Buchanan Jr.

1985 Franco Modigliani

1984 Richard Stone

1983 Gerard Debreu

1982 George J. Stigler

1981 James Tobin

1980 Lawrence R. Klein

1979 Theodore W. Schultz, Sir Arthur Lewis

1978 Herbert A. Simon

1977 Bertil Ohlin, James E. Meade

1976 Milton Friedman

1975 Leonid Vitaliyevich Kantorovich, Tjalling C. Koopmans

1974 Gunnar Myrdal, Friedrich August von Hayek

1973 Wassily Leontief

1972 John R. Hicks, Kenneth J. Arrow

1971 Simon Kuznets

1970 Paul A. Samuelson

1969 Ragnar Frisch, Jan Tinbergen