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Economics Nobel Laureates
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Vernon L. Smith
Establishment of laboratory experiments as a tool in empirical economic analysis, especially in the study of alternative market mechanisms.
Paul Samuelson
Foundations of economic analysis and bringing mathematical rigor to economics.
Amartya Sen
Contributions to welfare economics and social choice theory, and for his interest in the problems of society's poorest members.
Gary S. Becker
Extended the domain of microeconomic analysis to a wide range of human behavior and interaction, including non-market behavior.
Elinor Ostrom
Analysis of economic governance, especially the commons.
Robert Shiller
Empirical analysis of asset prices.
Paul Krugman
Analysis of trade patterns and location of economic activity.
Joseph Stiglitz
Analysis of markets with asymmetric information.
Peter A. Diamond
Analysis of the foundations of search frictions in markets.
Milton Friedman
Development of consumption analysis, monetary history and theory, and for his demonstration of the complexity of stabilization policy.
Robert Solow
Development of the neoclassical growth model.
James M. Buchanan
Development of the contractual and constitutional bases for the theory of economic and political decision-making.
Richard H. Thaler
Contributions to behavioral economics.
George Akerlof
Analyses of markets with asymmetric information.
Daniel Kahneman
Having integrated insights from psychological research into economic science, especially concerning human judgment and decision-making under uncertainty.
Alvin E. Roth
Theory and applications of market design and stable allocations, particularly the matching of doctors to hospitals, students to schools, and kidneys to patients.
Jean Tirole
Analysis of market power and regulation.
Abhijit Banerjee
Experimental approach to alleviating global poverty.
Oliver E. Williamson
Analyses of economic governance, particularly boundaries of the firm.
Michael Kremer
Introduction of a new approach to obtaining reliable answers about the best ways to fight poverty.
Robert B. Wilson
Theory for auctions and inventing new auction formats.
Paul M. Romer
Integration of technological innovations into long-term macroeconomic analysis.
Esther Duflo
Use of randomized controlled trials for effective interventions in fighting global poverty.
William D. Nordhaus
Integrating climate change into long-term macroeconomic analysis.
Paul R. Milgrom
Improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats.
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