Nobel Prize in Economics

Paul R. Milgrom (USA, right) and Robert B. Wilson (USA, left) share the Nobel Prize “for improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats”

2019: Abhijit Banerjee (IND), Esther Duflo (FRA/USA), Michael Kremer (USA) “for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty”

2018: William Nordhaus (USA) Paul Romer (USA) “for including climate change and technological innovation in longterm economic theory

2017: Richard Thaler (USA) “for his contributions to behavioural economics”

2016: Bengt Holmström (FIN) Oliver Hart (GBR) “for their contributions to contract theory”

2015: Angus Deaton (UK) “for his analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare”


Source: Nobelprize.org 
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