American Economic Association


Nobel Laureates in Economics

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from the 2009 Annual Meeting

Year of Nobel Prize
     
 
Birth Date
Country of Origin
2009
Elinor Ostrom 1933- American
  Oliver Williamson 1932- American
 
   
2008
Paul R. Krugman 1953- American
 
   
2007
Leonid Hurwicz 1917-2008 Russian
  Eric S. Maskin 1950- American
  Roger B. Myerson 1951- American
 
   
2006
Edmund Phelps 1933- American

   
2005
Thomas Schelling 1921- American
Robert J. Aumann 1930- Israeli and American

   
2004
Edward C. Prescott 1940- American
Finn E. Kydland 1943- Norwegian

   
2003
Clive W.J. Granger 1934-2009 British
Robert F. Engle 1942- American

   
2002
Vernon L. Smith 1927- American
Daniel Kahneman 1934- Israeli

   
2001
George A. Akerlof 1940- American
A. Michael Spence 1943- American
Joseph E. Stiglitz 1943- American

   
2000
James J. Heckman 1944- American
Daniel L. McFadden 1937- American

   
1999
Robert A. Mundell 1932- Canadian

   
1998
Amartya Sen 1933- Indian

   
1997
Robert C. Merton 1944- American
Myron S. Scholes 1941- American

   
1996
James A. Mirrlees 1936- British
William S. Vickrey 1914-1996 American

   
1995
Robert E. Lucas, Jr. 1937- American

   
1994
John C. Harsanyi 1920-2000 American (born Hungary)
John F. Nash 1928- American
Reinhard Selten 1930- German

   
1993
Robert W. Fogel 1926- American
Douglass C. North 1920- American

   
1992
Gary S. Becker 1930- American

   
1991
Ronald H. Coase 1910- American (British-born)

   
1990
Harry M. Markowitz 1927- American
Merton H. Miller 1923-2000 American
William F. Sharpe 1938- American

   
1989
Trygve Haavelmo 1911-1999 Norwegian

   
1988
Maurice Allais 1911- French

   
1987
Robert M. Solow 1924- American

   
1986
James M. Buchanan, Jr. 1919- American

   
1985
Franco Modigliani 1918-2003 American (born Italy)

   
1984
Sir Richard Stone 1913-1991 British

   
1983
Gerard Debreu 1921-2004 American (born France)

   
1982
George J. Stigler 1911-1991 American

   
1981
James Tobin 1918-2002 American

   
1980
Lawrence R. Klein 1920- American

   
1979
Theodore W. Schultz 1902-1998 American
Sir Arthur Lewis 1915-1991 West Indian

   
1978
Herbert A. Simon 1916-2001 American

   
1977
James E. Meade 1907-1995 British
Bertil Ohlin 1899-1979 Swedish

   
1976
Milton Friedman 1912-2006 American

   
1975
Leonid V. Kantorovich 1912-1986 Russian
Tjalling C. Koopmans 1910-1985 American (born Netherlands)

   
1974
Gunnar Myrdal 1898-1987 Swedish
Friedrich A. von Hayek 1899-1992 British (born Austria)

   
1973
Wassily Leontief 1906-1999 American (Russian-born)

   
1972
Kenneth J. Arrow 1921- American
John R. Hicks 1904-1989 British

   
1971
Simon Kuznets 1901-1985 American (Russian-born)

   
1970
Paul A. Samuelson 1915- American

   
1969
Ragnar Frisch 1895-1973 Norwegian
Jan Tinbergen 1903-1994 Dutch

 

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