| 1969 |
 Ragnar Frisch  Jan Tinbergen |
| "For having developed and applied dynamic models for the analysis of economic processes." |
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| 1970 |
 Paul Samuelson |
| "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." |
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| 1971 |
 Simon Kuznets |
| "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." |
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| 1972 |
 John Hicks
 Kenneth Arrow |
| "For their pioneering contributions to general economic equilibrium theory and welfare theory."
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| 1973 |  Wassily Leontief |
| "For the development of the input-output method and for its application to important economic problems." |
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| 1974 |  Gunnar Myrdal
 Friedrich von Hayek |
| "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."
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| 1975 |  Leonid Kantovarich
 Tjalling Koopmans |
| "For their contributions to the theory of the optimum allocation of resources."
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| 1976 |  Milton Friedman |
| "For his achievements in the field of consumption analysis, monetary history and theory and for his demonstration of the complexity of stabilisation policy." |
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| 1977 |  Bertil Ohlin
 James Meade |
| "For their pathbreaking contribution to the theory of international trade and international capital movements." |
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| 1978 |  Herbert Simon |
| "For his pioneering research into the decision making process within economic organisations." |
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| 1979 |  Theodore Schultz
 Arthur Lewis |
| "For their pioneering research into economic development, with particular consideration of the problems of developing countries." |
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| 1980 |
 Lawrence Klein |
| "For the creation of econometric models and their application to the analysis of economic fluctuations and economic policies." |
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| 1981 |
 James Tobin |
| "For his analysis of financial markets and their relations to expenditure decisions, employment, production and prices." |
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| 1982 |  George Stigler |
| "For his seminal studies of industrial structure, functioning of markets and causes and effects of public regulation." |
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| 1983 |
 Gerard Debreu |
| "For having incorporated new analytic methods into economic theory and for his rigorous reformulation of the theory of general equilibrium." |
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| 1984 |
 Richard Stone |
| "For having made fundamental contributions to the development of systems of national accounts and hence greatly improved the basis for empirical economic analysis." |
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| 1985 |
 Franco Modigliani |
| "For his pioneering analysis of savings and financial markets." |
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| 1986 |
 James Buchanan |
| "For his development of the contractual and constitutional bases of
the theory of economic and political decision making." |
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| 1987 |
 Robert Solow |
| "For his contributions to the theory of economic growth." |
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| 1988 |
 Maurice Allais |
| "For his pioneering contributions to the theory of markets and efficient utilisation of resources." |
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| 1989 |
 Trygve Haavelmo |
| "For his clarification of the probability theory foundation of econometrics and his analysis of simultaneous economic structures." |
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| 1990 |  Harry Markowitz
 Merton Miller |
 William Sharpe
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| "For their pioneering work in the theory of financial economics" |
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| 1991 |
 Ronald Coase |
| "For his discovery and clarification of the significance of transaction costs and property rights for the traditional structure and functioning of the economy." |
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| 1992 |
 Gary Becker |
| "For having extended the domain of microeconomic analysis to a wide
range of human behaviour and interaction, including non-market behaviour." |
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| 1993 |
 Robert Fogel
 Douglass North |
| "For having renewed research in economic history by applying economic theory and quantitative methods to explain economic and institutional change." |
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| 1994 |  John Harsanyi
 John Nash |
 Reinhard Selten
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| "For their pioneering analysis of equilibria in the theory of non-cooperative games." |
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| 1995 |
 Robert Lucas |
| "For having developed and applied the hypothesis of rational expectations,
and thereby having transformed macroeconomic analysis and deepened our understanding of economic policy." |
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| 1996 |
 James Mirrlees  William Vickrey |
| "For their fundamental contributions to the economic theory of incentives under asymmetric information." |
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| 1997 |
 Robert C. Merton  Myron S. Scholes |
| "For a new method to determine the value of derivatives" |
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| 1998 |
 Amartya Sen |
| "For his contributions to welfare economics." |
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| 1999 |
 Robert A. Mundell |
| "For his analysis of monetary and fiscal policy under different exchange rate regimes and his analysis of optimum currency areas." |
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| 2000 |
 James Heckman  Daniel McFadden |
| "To James Heckman for his development of theory and methods for analyzing selective samples and to Daniel McFadden for his development of theory and methods for analyzing discrete choice." |
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| 2001 |
 George A. Akerlof
 A. Michael Spence |
 Joseph E. Stiglitz
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| "For their analyses of markets with asymmetric information."
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| 2002 |
 Daniel Kahneman  Vernon L. Smith |
| "To Daniel Kahneman for having integrated insights from psychological research into economic science, especially concerning human judgment and decision-making under uncertainty and to Vernon L. Smith for having established laboratory experiments as a tool in empirical economic analysis, especially in the study of alternative market mechanisms." |
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| 2003 |
 Robert F. Engle  Clive W. J. Granger |
| "To Robert Engle for methods of analyzing economic time series with time-varying volatility (ARCH) and to Clive W. J. Granger for methods of analyzing economic time series with common trends (cointegration)" |
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| 2004 |
 Finn E. Kydland  Edward C. Prescott |
| "For their contributions to dynamic macroeconomics: the time consistency of economic policy and the driving forces behind business cycles" |
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| 2005 |
 Thomas C. Schelling  Robert J. Aumann |
| "For having enhanced our understanding of conflict and cooperation through game-theory analysis" |
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| 2006 |
 Edmund S. Phelps |
| "For his analysis of intertemporal tradeoffs in macroeconomic policy" |
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| 2007 |
 Leonid Hurwicz
 Eric S. Maskin |
 Roger B. Myerson
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| "For having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory"
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| 2008 |
 Paul Krugman |
| "For his analysis of trade patterns and location of economic activity" |
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| 2009 |  Elinor Ostrom  Oliver E. Williamson |
| To Elinor Ostrom "for her analysis of economic governance, especially the commons" and to Oliver E. Williamson "for his analysis of economic governance, especially the boundaries of the firm" |
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| 2010 |
 Peter A. Diamond
 Dale T. Mortensen |
 Christopher A. Pissarides
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| "For their analysis of markets with search frictions"
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| 2011 |  Thomas J. Sargent  Christopher A. Sims |
| "For their empirical research on cause and effect in the macroeconomy"
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| 2012 |  Alvin E. Roth  Lloyd S. Shapley |
| "For the theory of stable allocations and the practice of market design"
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