The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences






The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences is responsible for selecting the Laureates in Economics. The upper half of the face of the medal depicts Alfred Nobel, but in a pose different from the one appearing on the other Nobel Prize Medals. Around the upper edge are the words Sveriges Riksbank till Alfred Nobels Minne 1968 ("The Sveriges Riksbank, in memory of Alfred Nobel, 1968). The lower half displays the bank's crossed horns of plenty. The obverse shows the North Star emblem of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, dating from 1815, with the words "Kungliga Vetenskaps Akademien" (The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences) around the edge. The medal was designed by Gunvor Svensson-Lundqvist. 1969-1970 \| 1971-1980 \| 1981-1990 \| 1991-2000 \| 2001- [all links in the list will open in a new window] 1969 Ragnar Frisch, Jan Tinbergen 1970 Paul A. Samuelson 1971 Simon Kuznets 1972 John R. Hicks, Kenneth J. Arrow 1973 Wassily Leontief 1974 Gunnar Myrdal, Friedrich August von Hayek 1975 Leonid Vitaliyevich Kantorovich, Tjalling C. Koopmans 1976 Milton Friedman 1977 Bertil Ohlin, James E. Meade 1978 Herbert A. Simon 1979 Theodore W. Schultz, Sir Arthur Lewis 1980 Lawrence R. Klein 1981 James Tobin 1982 George J. Stigler 1983 Gerard Debreu 1984 Richard Stone 1985 Franco Modigliani 1986 James M. Buchanan Jr. 1987 Robert M. Solow 1988 Maurice Allais 1989 Trygve Haavelmo 1990 Harry M. Markowitz, Merton H. Miller, William F. Sharpe 1991 Ronald H. Coase 1992 Gary S. Becker 1993 Robert W. Fogel, Douglass C. North 1994 John C. Harsanyi, John F. Nash Jr., Reinhard Selten 1995 Robert E. Lucas Jr. 1996 James A. Mirrlees, William Vickrey 1997 Robert C. Merton, Myron S. Scholes 1998 Amartya Sen 1999 Robert A. Mundell 2000 James J. Heckman, Daniel L. McFadden 2001 George A. Akerlof, A. Michael Spence, Joseph E. Stiglitz 2002 Daniel Kahneman, Vernon L. Smith 2003 Robert F. Engle III, Clive W.J. Granger 2004 Finn E. Kydland, Edward C. Prescott 2005 Robert J. Aumann, Thomas C. Schelling 2006 Edmund S. Phelps 2007 Leonid Hurwicz, Eric S. Maskin, Roger B. Myerson 2008 Paul Krugman Questions or comments about this page?

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