Top 10 Nobel Prize Laureates in Economic Sciences
The Top Ten
1976 winner: "for his achievements in the fields of consumption analysis, monetary history and theory and for his demonstration of the complexity of stabilization policy".
1974 winners: "for their pioneering work in the theory of money and economic fluctuations and for their penetrating analysis of the interdependence of economic, social and institutional phenomena".
1970 winner: "for the scientific work through which he has developed static and dynamic economic theory and actively contributed to raising the level of analysis in economic science".
1992 winner: "for having extended the domain of microeconomic analysis to a wide range of human behaviour and interaction, including nonmarket behaviour".
1973 winner: "for the development of the input-output method and for its application to important economic problems".
1998 winner: "for his contributions to welfare economics".
2002 winner: "for having integrated insights from psychological research into economic science, especially concerning human judgment and decision-making under uncertainty".
1997 winners: "for a new method to determine the value of derivatives".
2015 winner: "for his analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare".
2007 winners: "for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory".
The Contenders
1971 winner: "for his empirically founded interpretation of economic growth which has led to new and deepened insight into the economic and social structure and process of development"
1977 winners: "for their pathbreaking contribution to the theory of international trade and international capital movements".
1980 winner: "for the creation of econometric models and the application to the analysis of economic fluctuations and economic policies".
1985 winner: "for his pioneering analyses of saving and of financial markets".
1990 winners: "for their pioneering work in the theory of financial economics".
1993 winners: "for having renewed research in economic history by applying economic theory and quantitative methods in order to explain economic and institutional change".
2001 winners: "for their analyses of markets with asymmetric information".
2005 winners: "for having enhanced our understanding of conflict and cooperation through game-theory analysis".
1996: "for their fundamental contributions to the economic theory of incentives under asymmetric information".
1983: "for having incorporated new analytical methods into economic theory and for his rigorous reformulation of the theory of general equilibrium".
John Forbes Nash Jr. was an American mathematician who made fundamental contributions to game theory, differential geometry, and the study of partial differential equations.