The last ten winners of the Nobel Prize in Economics

These were the winners of the prize of Economics in memory of Alfred Nobel, in the last ten editions:

2023: The American Claudia Goldin for her studies on the role of women in the labor market.

2022: Americans Ben Bernanke, Douglas Diamond and Philip Dybvig for their work on financial crises and banks.

2021: David Card (United States/Canada), Joshua Angrist (United States/Israel) and Guido Imbens (United States/Netherlands), for their work on the labor market, immigration and education.

2020: Americans Paul Milgrom and Robert Wilson, for having “improved auction theory and invented new auction formats,” for the benefit of sellers and buyers.

2019: Esther Duflo (France/United States) and the Americans Abhijit Banerjee and Michael Kremer for their work on reducing poverty in the world.

2018: The Americans William Nordhaus and Paul Romer for having modeled the virtues and disadvantages of economic activity on the climate

2017: The American Richard H. Thaler for his work on the psychological and social mechanisms that intervene in the decisions of consumers and investors.

2016: Oliver Hart (United Kingdom/United States) and Bengt Holmström (Finland), contract theorists.

2015: Angus Deaton (United Kingdom/United States), for his analysis of consumption, poverty and well-being.

2014: The Frenchman Jean Tirole, for his analysis of the power of markets and regulation.

Source: AFP