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Economics Awards

Shortcuts: Nobel Prize, Clark Medal, Elaine Bennett Research Prize (CSWEP), Carolyn Shaw Bell Award (CSWEP), TIAA-CREF Paul A. Samuelson Award, Erwin Plein Nemmers Prize

Nobel Prize

Year of
Award Winner (or co-winner) Affiliation Year of
Birth Year of
Death Wikipedia
profile Google
scholar Books

2010 Peter Diamond MIT 1940 W G B

Dale Mortensen Northwestern University 1939 W G B

Christopher Pissarides London School of Economics 1948 W G B

2009 Elinor Ostrom Indiana University 1933 W G B

Oliver Williamson Berkeley 1932 W G B

2008 Paul Krugman Princeton 1953 W G B

2007 Leonid Hurwicz University of Minnesota 1917 2008 W G B

Eric Maskin Princeton 1950 W G B

Roger Myerson Chicago 1951 W G B

2006 Edmund Phelps Columbia 1933 W G B

2005 Robert Aumann University of Jerusalem 1930 W G B

Thomas Schelling University of Maryland 1921 W G B

2004 Finn Kydland Carnegie Mellon 1943 W G

Edward Prescott Arizona State 1940 W G B

2003 Robert Engle New York University 1942 W G B

Clive Granger UC-San Diego 1934 2009 W G B

2002 Daniel Kahneman Princeton 1934 W G B

Vernon Smith George Mason University 1927 W G B

2001 George Akerlof Berkeley 1940 W G B

Michael Spence Stanford 1943 W G B

Joseph Stiglitz Columbia 1943 W G B

2000 James Heckman Chicago 1944 W G B

Daniel McFadden Berkeley 1937 W G B

1999 Robert Mundell Columbia 1932 W G B

1998 Amartya Sen Trinity College 1933 W G B

1997 Robert Merton Harvard 1944 W G B

Myron Scholes Long Term Capital Management 1941 W G B

1996 James Mirrlees University of Cambridge 1936 W G B

William Vickrey Columbia 1914 1996 W G B

1995 Robert Lucas, Jr. Chicago 1937 W G B

1994 John Harsanyi Berkeley 1920 2000 W G B

John Nash, Jr. Princeton 1928 W G

Reinhard Selten Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität 1930 W G B

1993 Robert Fogel Chicago 1926 W G B

Douglass North Washington University of St. Louis 1920 W G B

1992 Gary Becker Chicago 1930 W G B

1991 Ronald Coase Chicago 1910 W G B

1990 Harry Markowitz City University of New York 1927 W G B

Merton Miller Chicago 1923 2000 W G B

William Sharpe Stanford 1934 W G B

1989 Trygve Haavelmo University of Oslo 1911 1999 W G B

1988 Maurice Allais École Nationale Supérieur des Mines de Paris 1911 W G B

1987 Robert Solow MIT 1924 W G B

1986 James Buchanan, Jr. Center for Study of Public Choice 1919 W G

1985 Franco Modigliani MIT 1918 2003 W G B

1984 Richard Stone University of Cambridge 1913 1991 W G

1983 Gerard Debreu Berkeley 1921 2004 W G B

1982 George J. Stigler Chicago 1911 1991 W G B

1981 James Tobin Yale 1918 2002 W G B

1980 Lawrence R. Klein University of Pennsylvania 1920 W G B

1979 Theodore Schultz Chicago 1902 1998 W G B

Arthur Lewis Princeton 1915 1991 W G B

1978 Herbert A. Simon Carnegie Mellon 1916 2001 W G

1977 Bertil Ohlin Stockholm School of Economics 1899 1979 W G

James Meade University of Cambridge 1907 1995 W G

1976 Milton Friedman Chicago 1912 2006 W G B

1975 Leonid Vitaliyevich Kantorovich Academy of Sciences (Moscow) 1912 1986 W G

Tjalling Koopmans Yale 1910 1985 W G

1974 Gunnar Myrdal 1898 1987 W G

Friedrich August von Hayek 1899 1992 W G B

1973 Wassily Leontief Harvard 1906 1999 W G

1972 John Hicks All Souls College 1904 1989 W G

Kenneth Arrow Harvard 1921 W G

1971 Simon Kuznets Harvard 1901 1985 W G

1970 Paul A. Samuelson MIT 1915 2009 W G

1969 Ragnar Frisch University of Oslo 1895 1973 W G

Jan Tinbergen Netherland School of Economics 1903 1994 W G

Quick facts

Youngest recipient: Kenneth Arrow
Oldest recipient: Leonid Hurwicz
Single winners: 22 of 41 (53.7%)
Affiliations with most winners: University of Chicago (10), Berkeley (5), Princeton (5), Columbia (4), Harvard (4)

Clark Medal

Year of Award	Winner	Wikipedia profile	Google scholar	Books
2010	Esther Duflo	W	G
2009	Emmanuel Saez	W	G
2007	Susan Athey	W	G
2005	Daron Acemoglu	W	G	B
2003	Steven Levitt	W	G	B
2001	Matthew Rabin	W	G
1999	Andrei Shleifer	W	G	B
1997	Kevin Murphy	W	G	B
1995	David Card	W	G
1993	Lawrence Summers	W	G
1991	Paul Krugman	W	G	B
1989	David Kreps	W	G	B
1987	Sanford Grossman	W	G
1985	Jerry Hausman	W	G	B
1983	James Heckman	W	G	B
1981	A. Michael Spence	W	G
1979	Joseph Stiglitz	W	G	B
1977	Martin Feldstein	W	G	B
1975	Daniel McFadden	W	G	B
1973	Franklin Fisher	W	G	B
1971	Dale Jorgenson	W	G	B
1969	Marc Nerlove	W	G	B
1967	Gary Becker	W	G	B
1965	Zvi Griliches	W	G	B
1963	Hendrik Houthakker	W	G	B
1961	Robert Solow	W	G	B
1959	Lawrence Klein	W	G
1957	Kenneth Arrow	W	G	B
1955	James Tobin	W	G	B
1953	NO AWARD
1951	Milton Friedman	W	G	B
1949	Kenneth Boulding	W	G	B
1947	Paul Samuelson	W	G	B

Elaine Bennett Research Prize (CSWEP)

Link to award webpage

Year of Award	Winner
2008	Amy Finkelstein
2006	Monika Piazzesi
2004	Marianne Bertrand
2002	Esther Duflo
2000	Susan Athey
1998	Judith Chevalier

Carolyn Shaw Bell Award (CSWEP)

Link to award webpage

Year of Award	Winner
2009	Elizabeth Bailey
2008	Anne Carter
2007	Olivia Mitchell
2006	Barbara Fraumeni
2005	Claudia Goldin
2004	Barbara Bergmann
2003	Robin Bartlett
2002	Margaret Garritsen de Vries
2001	Francine Blau
2001	Marianne Ferber
2000	Eva Mueller
1999	Sandra Ohrn Moose
1998	Alice Rivlin

TIAA-CREF Paul A. Samuelson Award (outstanding scholarly writing on lifelong financial security)

Link to award webpage

Year of Award	Winners
2009	George Akerlof, Robert Shiller
2008	Jeffrey Brown, Amy Finkelstein
2007	John Karl Scholz, Ananth Seshadri, Surachai Khitatrakun
2006	Mark Aguiar, Erik Hurst
2005	Shlomo Benartzi, Richard Thaler, Jonathan Berk, Richard Green
2004	Robert Dammon, Chester Spatt, Harold Zhang
2003	Peter Diamond
2002	John Campbell, Luis Viceira, Brigitte Madrian, Dennis Shea
2001	John Cochrane, Christian Gollier
2000	Nicholas Barberis
1999	John Geanokoplos, Olivia Mitchell, Stephen Zeldes
1998	Dora Costa
1997	Robert Shiller

Erwin Plein Nemmers Award (awarded biennially from Northwestern University)

Link to award webpage

Year of Award	Winners
2010	Elhanan Helpman
2008	Paul Milgrom
2006	Lars Hansen
2004	Ariel Rubinstein
2002	Edward Prescott
2000	Danel McFadden
1998	Robert Aumann
1996	Thomas Sargent
1994	Peter Diamond

Year of Award	Winner (or co-winner)	Affiliation	Year of Birth	Year of Death	Wikipedia profile	Google scholar	Books
2010	Peter Diamond	MIT	1940		W	G	B
	Dale Mortensen	Northwestern University	1939		W	G	B
	Christopher Pissarides	London School of Economics	1948		W	G	B
2009	Elinor Ostrom	Indiana University	1933		W	G	B
	Oliver Williamson	Berkeley	1932		W	G	B
2008	Paul Krugman	Princeton	1953		W	G	B
2007	Leonid Hurwicz	University of Minnesota	1917	2008	W	G	B
	Eric Maskin	Princeton	1950		W	G	B
	Roger Myerson	Chicago	1951		W	G	B
2006	Edmund Phelps	Columbia	1933		W	G	B
2005	Robert Aumann	University of Jerusalem	1930		W	G	B
	Thomas Schelling	University of Maryland	1921		W	G	B
2004	Finn Kydland	Carnegie Mellon	1943		W	G
	Edward Prescott	Arizona State	1940		W	G	B
2003	Robert Engle	New York University	1942		W	G	B
	Clive Granger	UC-San Diego	1934	2009	W	G	B
2002	Daniel Kahneman	Princeton	1934		W	G	B
	Vernon Smith	George Mason University	1927		W	G	B
2001	George Akerlof	Berkeley	1940		W	G	B
	Michael Spence	Stanford	1943		W	G	B
	Joseph Stiglitz	Columbia	1943		W	G	B
2000	James Heckman	Chicago	1944		W	G	B
	Daniel McFadden	Berkeley	1937		W	G	B
1999	Robert Mundell	Columbia	1932		W	G	B
1998	Amartya Sen	Trinity College	1933		W	G	B
1997	Robert Merton	Harvard	1944		W	G	B
	Myron Scholes	Long Term Capital Management	1941		W	G	B
1996	James Mirrlees	University of Cambridge	1936		W	G	B
	William Vickrey	Columbia	1914	1996	W	G	B
1995	Robert Lucas, Jr.	Chicago	1937		W	G	B
1994	John Harsanyi	Berkeley	1920	2000	W	G	B
	John Nash, Jr.	Princeton	1928		W	G
	Reinhard Selten	Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität	1930		W	G	B
1993	Robert Fogel	Chicago	1926		W	G	B
	Douglass North	Washington University of St. Louis	1920		W	G	B
1992	Gary Becker	Chicago	1930		W	G	B
1991	Ronald Coase	Chicago	1910		W	G	B
1990	Harry Markowitz	City University of New York	1927		W	G	B
	Merton Miller	Chicago	1923	2000	W	G	B
	William Sharpe	Stanford	1934		W	G	B
1989	Trygve Haavelmo	University of Oslo	1911	1999	W	G	B
1988	Maurice Allais	École Nationale Supérieur des Mines de Paris	1911		W	G	B
1987	Robert Solow	MIT	1924		W	G	B
1986	James Buchanan, Jr.	Center for Study of Public Choice	1919		W	G
1985	Franco Modigliani	MIT	1918	2003	W	G	B
1984	Richard Stone	University of Cambridge	1913	1991	W	G
1983	Gerard Debreu	Berkeley	1921	2004	W	G	B
1982	George J. Stigler	Chicago	1911	1991	W	G	B
1981	James Tobin	Yale	1918	2002	W	G	B
1980	Lawrence R. Klein	University of Pennsylvania	1920		W	G	B
1979	Theodore Schultz	Chicago	1902	1998	W	G	B
	Arthur Lewis	Princeton	1915	1991	W	G	B
1978	Herbert A. Simon	Carnegie Mellon	1916	2001	W	G
1977	Bertil Ohlin	Stockholm School of Economics	1899	1979	W	G
	James Meade	University of Cambridge	1907	1995	W	G
1976	Milton Friedman	Chicago	1912	2006	W	G	B
1975	Leonid Vitaliyevich Kantorovich	Academy of Sciences (Moscow)	1912	1986	W	G
	Tjalling Koopmans	Yale	1910	1985	W	G
1974	Gunnar Myrdal		1898	1987	W	G
	Friedrich August von Hayek		1899	1992	W	G	B
1973	Wassily Leontief	Harvard	1906	1999	W	G
1972	John Hicks	All Souls College	1904	1989	W	G
	Kenneth Arrow	Harvard	1921		W	G
1971	Simon Kuznets	Harvard	1901	1985	W	G
1970	Paul A. Samuelson	MIT	1915	2009	W	G
1969	Ragnar Frisch	University of Oslo	1895	1973	W	G
	Jan Tinbergen	Netherland School of Economics	1903	1994	W	G